PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

The Rev Ernest O. Blamires, Wellington, and formerly of Masterton, has been granted permission by the Methodist Conference in Christchurch to act as general secretary of the Bible-in-Schools League. The engagement is announced of Ngaire May (Paddy), youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs F. G. Wrigley, Rangitumau, Masterton, to Bdr. Charles Tan (2nd N.Z.E.F., overseas), elder son of Mr and Mrs J. G. McFarlane, 52 Lincoln Road, Masterton. The Rev R. W. R. Thornley, of the Wellington East Circuit, has been appointed by the Methodist Conference in Christchurch to act as chaplain and general secretary of the Student Christian Movement. Mr Thornley will continue to act as minister at Island Bay, Wellington. Sub-Lieutenant W. Russell Lloyd, eldest son of Mr and Mrs J. L. Lloyd, Dannevirke, has had the distinction of being the first New Zealander to be top of a division passing through King Alfred College, England. In granting him his commission the Board of Admiralty gave him a first-class recommended certificate. The death has occurred of Dr Percy Chisholm, M.8.E., medical superintendent, Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs. He was born in Nelson in 1884. During his service in the last war he was officer commanding a convalescent hospital for officer patients of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces at Brighton, England, and thus became well known to many hundreds who passed through the institution.

Reference to bereavements, the loss of a brother and his mother, suffered by a member, Mr J. D. O’Connor, was made by the chairman, Mr W. R. Nicol, at last night’s meeting of the Wairarapa College Board of Governors. Mr Nicol also referred in sympathetic terms to the tragic Heath of Donald French, a pupil of the college, and a boarder at the College hostel. Motions of condolence were carried, members standing in silence for a few moments.

The death occurred on Saturday night at the residence of her daughter in Oamaru of Mrs Alice Falloon, a former well known resident of Masterton. The late Mrs Falloon was the second daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Rayner, early settlers of the Wairarapa. She leaves two daughters (Mrs Harvey, Oamaru, and Mrs Polglase, Wellington), two sisters (Mrs F. E. O’Neale, Masterton, and Mrs Pearson, Feilding) and two brothers (Messrs W. Rayner, “The Cliffs,” East Taratahi, and L. Rayner, New Plymouth).

Twelve members of the Legislative Council will complete their sevenyear terms of appointment at midnight on March 8. They are as follows:— The Hons. Mark Briggs (Wellington), T. Brindle (Wellington), M. Connelly (Otago), J. Cotter (Auckland), T. F. Doyle (Southland), G. R. Hunter (Canterbury), F. E. Lark (Auckland), J. A. McCullough (Canterbury), B. Martin (Auckland), R. Mawhete (Wellington), B. C. Robbins (Auckland), and Sir Charles Statham (Wellington). These Legislative Councillors, and the Hons E. Dye (Auckland) and J. Goodall (Westland), who have since died, were the first appointments to the Council after the Labour Government came into office.

The death has occurred in Wellington of Mr William Henry Trengrove, a well-known mechanical engineer and former athlete, at the age of 76. He was the inventor of several mechanical devices. Born in England, Mr Trengrove came to New Zealand by sailing ship at a very early age. After his school days he joined the Addington railway workshops, where he became foreman. He then took up bicycle-making in Christchurch and in his leisure hours was a bandmaster. Later he owned several garages in Wellington and then one at Featherston. In his younger days he was a runner, track walker and racing cyclist. He was a well-known gun dog enthusiast and was at the time of his death vice-president of the Wairarapa Gun Dog Club. His wife predeceased him in 1940, and he is survived by one Ison, Mr C. F. Trengrove (Island Bay), land four daughters,