PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

The engagement is announced of Doris Mary, only daughter of Mr and Mrs J. A. Williams, Chapel Street, Masterton, to Lt. E. John Heger, U.S.M.C. Miss Joy Tyne, of Napier, who is engaged to Gunner K. E. Forrest, 2nd N.Z.E.F. Overseas, has been spending a holiday with Mrs A. Forrest, Essex Street, Masterton. Mr and Mrs F. E. Wells, Villa Street, Mastgrton, announce the engagement of their third daughter, Alva Edith, to Greig Edwin, RN.Z.AF., elder son of Mr and Mrs V. Jones, Essex Street, Masterton. Sister I. C. Healey, who has been awarded the Royal Red Cross, Second Class, for service in the Middle East, is well known in Masterton. She was on the nursing staff of the Masterton Hospital as a sister for a period of about five years, from February, 1933, to December, 1937. She was later employed at the Napier Hospit.al, and left there to enlist for service with the forces, leaving New Zealand with the Second Echelon. In connection with the success in the L.A.C. examination achieved by Mr Harry Hope Cross, formerly of Masterton, -it appears that some words omitted from a previous reference to the matter gave a wrong impression. Mr Cross stated in a letter to his mother at Carterton that his examination was in connection -with a trade test (photography), and that he was the only North Island candidate who had ever got through this examination at the first attempt. The death occurred recently of Mrs Catherine O’Connor, of Wadestown, in her ninety-first year. Mrs O’Connor was born in Edinburgh and came to New Zealand with her mother, Mrs Clark, on a year’s holiday, arriving at Port Chalmers by the ship Elizabeth Fleming in 1867. Mrs Clark later returned to Edinburgh, leaving her young daughter with a married sister. A few years later she married. Except for 12 months’ travel abroad in 1912, Mrs O’Connor has lived in the Dominion for the past 76 years. Mrs O’Connor’s husband died 40 years ago. The surviving members include Mr David O’Connor, of Masterton.