PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Miss 0. Macfarlane, of Seatoun, is visiting Masterton. Mr and Mrs H. Haggitt, Mataikona, are visiting Gisborne. Mrs S. McLachlan, of Rangitumau, is a patient in the Masterton Hospital. Lieutenant-Colonel G. G. Hancox and Mrs Hancox are at present visiting Master ton. Mrs H. 0. Toogood, Renall Street, Masterton, has returned from a visit to Auckland. Mrs W. G. Lamb, Chapel Street, Masterton, has returned from a short visit to Wellington. Mrs West, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs T. W. Wardell, Te Whiti, has returned to Auckland, L.A.C. Doidge and Mrs Doidge, of Christchurch, are visiting Masterton and are the guests of Mrs E. Baikie, Bentley Street. The Rt. Hon. P. ETaser, Prime Minister, left Wellington for the north by the Limited express last night. He will return to Wellington next Thursday. Private Reginald Taepa,. of Ohinemuri, w’ho has been killed in action, is a brother of the Rev. H. Taepa, of Masterton, to whom the sympathy of a wide circle of friends will be extended. Mr H. Barton, Dixon Street, Masterton, has received word that his son, Pte. William Malcolm Barton, of the Middle East Forces, is dangerously ill with pneumonia. The many friends of Mrs C. Pickering will be pleased to learn that she has made sufficient recovery, following an operation in the Masterton Hospital, to be able to return to her home in Miriam Street today. Pilot Officer Cecil Henry Hight, of Stratford, who lost his life in the Battle of Britain in August, 1940, over Bournemouth,’ in recognition of which a memorial was unveiled recently in St. Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, was a brother of Mrs A. J. Curry, of Te Ore Ore. Pilot Officer Hight was one of the first New Zealanders to volunteer for service in the R.A.F. The funeral of the late Mrs J. Roberts, which took place in Masterton yesterday afternoon was well attended. Services were conducted at the chapel and at the graveside by the Rev. David McNeur. A number of beautiful wreaths were received. The pall-bear-ers were Messrs N. W. Ninnes, R. F. Caverhill, J. Robertson (Wellington), and A. Woodhouse. Scenes reminiscent of the funeral of Mr T. W. Ratana in 1939 were witnessed at Ratana Pa, near Wanganui, last evening, when the body of the Minister in charge of the Maori War Effort, Mr Paikea, who died in Wanganui this week, was placed on the train for the start of its long journey to North Auckland. Hundreds of Maoris from different parts of New Zealand had gathered at the pa, and the funeial service held in the Ratana temple was attended by the representatives of many tribes. The journey north is being carried out in three stages. At Marton a mortuary van with four cars containing tribal representatives and the official party was attached to the Wellington-Auckland relief express. The body was taken from the train at Ngaruawahia this morning and will remain there till Sunday, when it will be taken to Orakei, leaving there again on Monday morning for the family burial ground at Batley, near Maungaturoto, where the funeral will be held on Tuesday afternoon.