PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs Elliot Kent, of Pongaroa, are visiting Rakanui. Mr and Mrs H. Torrey, of Linton, are spending a holiday in Featherston. Mrs R. Coates, of Auckland, is the guest of Mrs L. B. Maunsell, Opaki. Misses A. and M. McLaren, Roberts Road, Lansdowne, are spending Easter in Auckland. Mr and Mrs W. G. Lamb, Chapel Street, Masterton, are the guests of Mrs J. Perry, Taranaki. Mrs and Miss Gascoyne, Wellington, are the guests of Mrs H. O. Toogood, Renall Street, Masterton. Mrs D. R. Hall, of Pongaroa, who has been a patient in a private hospital in Palmerston North, has returned home much improved in health.

The engagement is announced of Mary Dorothy, second daughter of Mr and Mrs R. A. Copeland, Carterton, to Robert Burnerd, ■ U.S.M.C., eldest son of Mr C.. S. Kohl, Massillon, Ohio, U.S.A. Mr and Mrs G. W. Milne, of Masters Crescent, Masterton, have received cable advice that their son, LanceCorporal Findlay Milne, who was a prisoner of war in Italy, has arrived in England. At the annual conference at Wellington of delegates to the New Zealand Federation of Labour, the election of officers resulted as follows: —President, Mr A. McLagan (unopposed); vice-president, Mr A. W. Croskery; secretary, Mr F. D. Cornwell (unopposed); national executive, Messrs F. P. Walsh and F. C.'Allerby; delegate to 1.L.0. conference, Mr McLagan. The following members of the R.N.Z.N.V.R. have been promoted:— Temporary lieutenants: A. W. Buchan, Dunedin; R. M. Chambers, Havelock North. Temporary acting sub-lieuten-ants: C. F. O’Connor, W. G. A. Smith, Wellington; also A. S. Arlidge, C. P. Berg, J. L. Clark-Hall, and L. C. Nisbett, Hamilton. Members of the Fleet Air Arm promoted are:—Temporary lieutenants: A. W. Lawrence, Wairarapa; G. P. Bourke, Wellington; D. S. Hill, Auckland; also C. D. Jacobsen, A. Monro, B. D. McMillan. Temporary acting sub-lieutenants, K. R. Stevens, A. R. Andrew, D. H. Meiklejohn. Among recent awards made to New Zealand soldiers overseas was the Military Medal to L./Cpl. H. J. Monaghan, son of Mrs J. Monaghan, of Eketahuna. Throughout the offensive actions beginning on October 23 on Miteiriya Ridge Lance-Corporal Monaghan commanded his section with outstanding courage, and complete disregard of his own personal safety, states the official citation. Although he had received four shrapnel wounds in his back on the morning of October 27 he remained with his section until ordered to the R.A.P. After having his wounds dressed he returned to his section, and, although suffering great pain and unable to carry a pack on his back, his courage and devotion to duty and his cheerfulness was an inspiration and a fine example to his men.