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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 2

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Miss E. Daniell, Albert Street, Masterton, is spending a few days in Wellington. Mrs I. C .Edwards, Pahiatua, is the guest of Mrs John Rich, Perry Street, Masterton. ( Mrs A. S. Wilder, Hawke’s Bay, is staying with Miss <l. McLaren, Renall Street, Masterton. One of the oldest voters in New Zealand, Mrs Boyle, of Waipawa, aged 101, briskly walked to the polling booth to record her vote on election day. Mrs Boyle has every faculty unimpaired and regularly walks into town to do her shopping. Mrs Winifred Gertrude Wilson, wife of Dr H. M. Wilson, Hastings, died in her sleep yesterday. Mrs Wilson was an enthusiastic patriotic worker. She was a member of a well-known pioneer family in Hawke’s Bay, being the eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs F. S. Waterhouse, Mangawhare Station, where she was born. An uncle of her father, Mr George Marsden Waterhouse, was Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1872 and the following year.

Lieutenant William Bremner Highet, Royal Army Medical Corps, eldest son of Mr and Mrs David Highet, Wellington, and late of Dunedin, was among those lost in the sinking of the liner Ceramic, news of which has just been released. Mr Highet was 32. He graduated M. 8., Ch.B., of Otago University in 1934, and was elected F.R.C.S. in 1938. He gave up a scholarship and, with a special research grant from the Oxford University, took on the work of a nerve specialist',’ in which he continued till he joined the R.A.M.C. in September, 1942.