PERSONAL ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 29 September 1949, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Mrs W. Wright was passed at the monthly meeting of the R'unanga School Committee The chairman, Mr R. J. Armstrong, referred to the long association of Mrs Wright with the committee.

Mrs D. A. Palmer, J.F., of Eastbourne, Wellington, has been appointed an Associate Member of the Price Tribunal. Th<e Ministex’ of Industries and Commerce, Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, announced the appointment last night.—Press Assn.

Mi’ S. Andrews, manager of the St Janie’s Theatre, Wellington, arrived in Greymouth last week to relieve Mr R. B. Tansley, who is taking his three week’s annual vacation.

No definite information regarding possible scrapping of .303 rifles as a result of standardisation agreement being discussed between Britain and the United States has been received locallv. the Deputy Chief of the General ‘Staff, Colonel L.W. Thornton stated, f don’t think the change is definite at all,” he added. “However, if a change were made by Britain, New Zealand would also adopt it.”

A London cable says: It was announced on Tuesday night that the Marquess of Milford Haven, Britain’s “most eligible bachelor” is to marry Mi’s Romaine Dahlgren Pierce Simpson, of Washington. Jffie Marquess, the salesman cousin, of the King, recently visited, the United States on a business trip for a British radiator’ firm. The wedding will take place in Washington, probably in November. The future Marchioness, aged 26, dark-haired and good-looking, is the divorced wife of Mi’ Pierce Simpson, an executive of the Marshal] Fields Department Store in Chicago. She was born in Biltmore, Nox’th Carolina, is a student of music and fond of out-door sports. She has been in London since the beginning of the month on her first visit to England.