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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs G. C. Williams, Short Street, Masterton, are visiting Tauranga.

Mrs Lees, Auckland, is staying with her sister, Mrs H. K. Mclntosh, To Whiti.

Mr and Mrs R. C. Drummond, Lansdowne have returned from a visit to Wellington. Mrs J. M. Perry, New Plymouth, is staying with her mother, Mrs W. G. Lamb, Chapel Street, Masterton. A British Official Wireless message says the Australian Minister of External Affairs, Dr Evatt, is to receive the freedom of Leeds next Wednesday. Dr Evatt has been received in audience by the King.

Advice has been received by Mr and Mrs J. Ackerman, Lansdowne, that their son, Darral, who has been on active service with the R.N.Z.A.F. in Great Britain, has been successful in obtaining a commission as a pilot officer.

At the annual conference of the National Beekeepers’ Association of New Zealand at Wellington yesterday, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: —President, Mr E. A. Field (Foxton); vice-president, Mr W. J. Lennon (Central Otago); secretary, Mr G. V. Fraser, F.C.S.N.Z.; executive committee, Messrs E. D. Williams and E J Kirk (North Island), T. F. Penrose and J. McFadzen (South Island.) The sudden death occurred on Thursday of Mr William Baird, of Invercargill. Mr Baird gave long service to the Rugby game both as a player and as an administrator. He represented Southland in 1908, 1909 and 1912, when he captained the team, and was president of the Southland Rugby Union from 1932 to 1934. He played on more than one occasion against Wairarapa. He was an owner and breeder of thoroughbred horses and won several important handicaps in Otago and Southland. The death occurred at the Kawa Kawa Hospital (Bay of Islands) on Thursday of Mr Charles Henry Dryden, for many years a well-known building contractor of Wellington. He was perhaps better known to old Wellingtonians as one of the best of cricketers. He played for the Star Club, which won the senior championship and the Colonel Edward Pearce Cup in 1883-4 and 1884-5. He was a good bowler and batsman. On one occasion when playing for Wellington against Nelson, Wellington batted disastrously, scoring only 24 runs with three wickets to fall. Then Mr Dryden, with Arthur Motley, made a stand, scoring 72 runs and winning the match by 19 runs. In a representative match, Wellington v Canterbury, Mr Dryden took 12 wickets for 93. He also played for Wellington against Australia in 1886, and against the English team in 1888. The marriage of Mrs Mary Victoria Grigg, M.P. for Mid-Canterbury, and Mr William John Polson, M.P. for Stratford since 1928, which was celebrated in Christchurch Cathedral on Thursday afternoon by the Rev H. M. Cocks, was only' the seventh wedding to be celebrated in the cathedral in the last 56 years. Mrs Polson is the widow of Major A. M. Grigg, M.P., M. and daughter of the late Mr J. Cracroft Wilson and Mrs Wilson, Helmores Road, Fendalton. Mrs Grigg was escorted by her brother, Lieuten-ant-Colonel J. F. Cracroft Wilson, N. and relatives only were present at the ceremony. The marriage of two sitting members is thought to be without precedent in the legislatures of the British Commonwealth and is certainly unique in New Zealand. Husband and wife have never before sat at the same time in the House of Representatives, though on two occasions wives have succeeded their husbands as members.