PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs C. G. Monro, King Edward Street, Lansdowne, is spending a few days in Napier. Mr and Mrs A. H. Daniell and Mrs H. W. Robinson, Albert Street, Masterton, are staying at Paraparaumu Beach. Mr H. E. Moston has been elected chairman of the management committee of the Royal Wellington Choral Union for the eighth year in succession. The engagement is announced of Alison Patricia, daughter of Sergeant and Mrs L. G. P. Whyte, of Masterton, and Norman Walter, eldest son of the Rev. and Mrs N. Burgess, of Napier. The 'engagement is announced of Betty Mary, twin daughter of Mr and Mrs J. H. Payton, of “Brookfield,” Masterton, to Noel Thomas Wyeth, youngest son of Mr and Mrs T. Wyeth, of “Hawkhurst,” Masterton. Mr R. W. Fenton has been appointed a member of the Rehabilitation Council. He is an ex-serviceman of the present war, and left New Zealand with the Ist Echelon. Before that he had lengthy Territorial Force service. He is a member of the Dominion executive of the N.Z.R.S.A. The death occurred last night, after a long illness, a Hokitika P.A. message states, of Mr John James Mclntosh, a former hotel licensee and superintendent of the Hokitika Fire Brigade. For many years Mr Mclntosh was president of the Westland Racing Club. A native of Invercargill, he was 76 years of age, and leaves a grown-up family of five daughters and one son. Mr W. E. Leadley, Dominion Organiser of the New Zealand Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League, and Mr P. H. G. Bennett, of the Lands Committee of the N.Z.R.S.A., are visiting Masterton today and will be the guests of the evening and the principal speakers at a social evening being tendered tonight by the Wairarapa Returned Services Association in the Masonic Hall.