PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs H. W. Robinson, Albert Street, is spending the weekend in Hamilton. Mr and Mrs Norman Lee and family, Johnstone Street, are visiting Castlepoint. Mrs H. O. Toogood and the Misses McLeod, Renall Street, left this week on an extended visit to Auckland. Mr W. F. L. Ward has been reappointed Acting-Governor of the Reserve Bank for a three-year term . The Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, Prime Minister, will visit Christchurch next week for the diamond jubilee conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute.

The engagement is announced of Jean, only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. D. Fisher, Cornwall Street, Masterton, to Maurice Stephen Graves, R.N.Z.A.F., elder son of Mr and Mrs S. Graves, Mangonui, North Auckland. Clerk to the Rangitikei county for half a century, Mr H. H. Richardson was met by the chairman, Cr. K. W. Dalrymple, councillors, . and several ex-councillors, at a gathering in Marton. Many trbiutes were paid to his years of efficient service and his long record in New Zealand local body affairs. In presenting Mr Richardson with a suitcase and a travelling rug, the chairman said they were not losing his services, but after 50 years a man was due for a spell for the duration of the war.

Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Anderson, D. 5.0., who has been in charge of the Railway Construction Corps for the N.Z.E.F. in the Western Desert since the early months of the war, has been transferred to India, where he will take up a similar appointment with the Indian Army. In the last war, Colonel Anderson was commander, Royal Engineers, to a British division in France, and afterward held important posts in the administration of Iraq. In civil life, he is resident engineer for the Public Works Department at Christchurch.