PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Miss J. Mulvaney, Kaituna, has been spending a few days in Wellington. Mr and Mrs E. M. Hodder, Pownall Street, are staying at Paraparaumu Beach. Miss M. Thomson, Hastings, is staying with her sister, Mrs R. S. Cameron, Te Ore Ore. Mrs A. A. Armstrong, Drury, is staying with her mother, Mrs J. Elliott, Colombo Road. Miss Doreen Brett, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Brett, South Road, Masterton, has left Masterton to join the W.R.N.S. The Rev. Father Buist, C.S.R.R., Wellington, is at present visiting Masterton, and will preach at St. Patrick’s Church, Masterton, tomorrow night on social and moral questions. The engagement is announced of Muriel, second daughter of Mr and Mrs John Walker, of Wellington, and Auckland, to Donald Ingram, only son of Mr and Mrs Hugh E. Haggitt, “Glenfalloch,” Masterton. A presentation of a leather writer’s companion and book was made last evening by members of the Masterton Borough Council staff to Miss Esme Nichols, of Greytown, who for the past two years has been a member of its clerical staff. On behalf of the donors, the Town Clerk (Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith) wished Miss Nichols every future success and happiness in association with her new sphere of employment in Wellington. At the annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute in Christchurch, Mr J. Barnett, headmaster of Johnsonville school, was elected unopposed. as president. Other officers were: Vice-president, Mr A. Hanna (Otago); treasurer, Mr J. S. H. Robertson (Hutt); local executive, Miss M. F. Gallagher, Miss M. Magill, Mr J. F. Macdonald, Mr M. S. Pitkowsky, Dr. F. Spurdie; full executive, Miss V. Curtis (Taranaki), Mr J. H. Menzies (Thames), Mr F. R. Price (South Canterbury), Dr. W. J. Boraman (Southland), Mr W. J. Cartwright (North Canterbury).