PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Miss Rosina Benson, Wellington, spent the Easter holidays at Lansdowne. A London cablegram reports the death, at the age of 85, of the Duke of Portland. Mr Richard A. Webber, who was wounded in the neck in the early hours of Sunday morning, and is a patient in the Masterton Hospital, is making good progress. i

The following New Zealand naval casualties were reported yesterday:— Petty Officer Bruce Alexander (Wellington), missing. Stoker Jack Longstaff (Aylesbury, Canterbury), died from natural causes.

Mr James Noble, printer and publisher, Reefton, who was 80 years of age, collapsed and died in Westport last evening. He was a well known racing handicapper, and attended the Westport meeting in that capacity.

The death occurred at Hastings on Wednesday last of Mrs Sarah Jane Belgrave, a resident of Hastings for the past 30 years. The late Mrs Belgrave was born at Northampton, England, in 1862, and came to New Zealand in 1911. She was twice married. Her first husband, Mr James Heaven, a builder, of Gloucester, England, died in 1896. She married Robert Belgrave at Dunedin in 1912, and subsequently settled in Hastings. Mr Belgrave died at Hastings in September last year. She is survived by six children of her first marriage. They are Messrs V. J. Heaven, Plymouth, England, G. J. Heaven, Wellington, F. W. Heaven, Masterton, Mesdames A. E. Wood, New Plymouth, A. Wilson, Wellington, and Miss B. Heaven, Hastings. There are 22 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. The late Mrs Belgrave was an active supporter of the Hastings Baptist Church.