PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10436, 29 September 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr C. E. Johnstoa, 'late of Hawke's -Bay. has joined the stock staff of the looiti broach of the New Zealand Loan -'-and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd.

Mr William Pryor, secretory of the New Zealand Employers' Federation; and a'brother of Mr J. Pryor, of Mas.terton, is confnvsd to his house at present by an attack of accute laryngitis, the result of a cold contracted a couple of months ago while on an organising tour in the South Island.

' V Mrand Mrs. J, M'Rae, of "Wer--•aitr' (Masterton), ere leaving next month by the.Rotorua on a prolonged visit-to. England. Oh Wednesday afMasterton, Mrs Norman vfetKarn-'gave a farewell tea for Mrs M'Rae.

His Excellency the Governor proceeded to Napier yesterday to open : lihe new . Hukarere Maori Girls' ' ' '

Mr and Mrs T. Lindsay Buick, of -Dannevirke, who. are. now in the ,01<1 'will leave Southampton for ' Syc'iiey on Monday.

Mr George Renner, formerly v of Tahiatua, has been" appointed managing editor of the Waikato Independent,' Cambridge. >

The death is announced of Mr, ""'Frank Horn, one of • Westport's oldest residents; aflso of Mr Charles Chilian, who has been an inmate of the Wdst- -> land Hospital for several years. He was 96 yeare of age.

: A private letter" from > Nelson an-■-nounces the death pf Mrs Hounsell, re:;.Hct of Mr Jesse Hounsell, for many ; years a bookseller in Nelson. She T leaves two sons and two daughters,, '■' all married.

The Opunake paper records the 'death at the age of 69 years, of Mrs Albr&ham Olough, the oldest resident ; of that locality, having settled there rp'ebme thirty-five years ago. ! Mr and Mis J. Schormann have reJtiirned to Eketahuna from,a trip to Old Country.

Mr Alfred Drake, v whose death oc-

rj ~; started tie first bacon factory in Tarab Eitzroy. Bay Tribune.says:— ■? e "and Palmerston Territorials, pPU;*xe^ |^|^;^T^^^''^j]^j;; : ; '"-..r-T. ' ;&&&; '^fMr ''£. -:E»;JuD-has,been unanimously the Waipawa' seat in the GoI V^;^yje*nnjent. interest. ■..

J^ Key. E. D. Patohett, son'of Mrs of Pahiatuiv, who ;is now in of: ministry Ara,f v J"r mioho--Methodist ; received % 3«wd ah from the , ' i ~ v .^.-,''\. '.'. \