PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs W. H. Purdie, of Pahiatua, is on a visit to Hastings. Mrs Graham, who had been the guest of Mrs A. H. Vaughan, Pahiatua, has returned to Masterton. Mr N. D. Stubbs, who has been Manawatu District Commissioner of the Boy Scouts for the past 24 years, has resigned from the position. In connection with the first aid examination conducted' by the Country Districts Sub-Centre of the Masterton Red Cross Society, Miss C. O’Hara secured a pass. Mr J. H. McCrea, of Wairoa, is on a visit to Masterton. It will be remembered that Mr McCrea was a popular member of "the local firm of Dalgety &-Co„ Ltd., a few years ago. The engagement is announced of June, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs S. O. Smith, Renall Street, Masterton, to Seaman Robert R. Harrington, son of Mr and Mrs F. Harrington, Bannister Street, Masterton. The engagement is announced of Gillian, only daughter of Mrs R. M. and the late Mr F. E. Gooder, of Masterton, to Cpl. Martin S. Houge, U.S.M.C.. son of Mr and Mrs O. S. Houge, South Dakota, U.S.A. A Bay of Plenty representation committee announces that the official Labour candidate to contest the Bay of Plenty seat will be Mr W. W. Jonasen, of Makaraka, Gisborne. Mr Jonasen followed the teaching profession for 16 years, after which he entered business with C. G. Ansell and Co., Makaraka. A former New Zealand swimming champion and record-holder, Captain i Noel Crump, was married in Cambridge to Miss Eileen Hilda Wallace, till recently theatre sister at the Rotorua Public Hospital. The bridegroom was adjutant of the famous battalion which held the Tobruk corridor open in December, 1941. He has just been invalided home and has served in Greece, Crete, Egypt and Libya. He is now adjutant at the Raventhorpe Convalescent Depot at Bombay (28 miles south of Auckland). Captain Crump represented the Dominion at the British Empire Games in London in 1934. Mrs Jane White, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday, died yesterday at Napier after a short illness. Mrs White, whose husband, Mr Robert White, predeceased her many years ago, spent the early part of her life in the Wairoa district, later going to Napier, where she resided till her death. She was a keen horticulturist and worked in her garden up till a month before she died. Of her family of six —three boys and three girls—five predeceased her, the one surviving son being Mr Surtees J. White, formerly of Wellington and now residing in Napier. Mrs White was a sister of the late Sir James Carroll. Sister M. Frances McManaway, a Sister of Compassion, and member of a well-known Wellington family, died 'recently at the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, after an extended illness. Sister McManaway was the daughter of Mr and Mrs John McManaway, pioneer settlers of Makara, whose home was often visited by the first Bishop of Wellington (Bishop Viard) and Father Petijean, who were the advance guard of Roman Catholicism in Wellington. She was the first sister to be professed at the Island Bay Home of Compassion, shortly after the Novitiate was transferred there in 1908 by the late Rev Mother Mary Joseph Aubert.

Mr H. B. Reid, Registrar of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, who has been promoted to Hamilton, will leave for the north on Thursday, accompanied by Mrs Reid. Mr Reid, who has been Registrar in Palmerston North for the past 12 years, joined the Government service in 1907 at Wellington. He was attached to the Department of Agriculture for three years and was then transferred to the Justice Department. He went to New Plymouth in 1910 and was subsequently stationed in turn at Oamaru, Dunedin, Waimate, Oamaru again. Masterton and Palmerston North.