PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr James Archer, Town Clerk of Mastercon, has been on a visit to Napier. Miss Annie Ritchie, of-"the Greytown school, has been appointed as-sistant-mistress at Pahiatua.

M"l' Ritchie has been elected Chairman of the .Waßfettiipi Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

Mr N: Stewart has, h<*& n transferred' from the P&hlatua. taahch of the Bank ef New Zealand to the Hastings branch.

Mc Bernard S. Page has accepted the position, of city organist at Wellington, and will leave. England for New Zealand next month.

Mr W. B). Godfrey, a well-known settler of Rsngomai, in the Forty-Mile Bush, leaves Wellington to-day for Sydney, en route for the Old Country. News has been received in Masterton of the death at Queenstown of Mr George Mackenzie, husband of the New Zealand secretary of the Ramabai mission. v

Mr Percy Bond, eldest son of Mr and Mi's Joseph Bond, oJt Belvedere, was married at Christchurch on Wednesday to Miss Lucy Parker, daughter of Mr Robert Parker, lata of Ca Islington, Cartertdn. , Miss O'Meara, jvho has been transferred from the Pahiatua telephone bureau to Wellington, was presented by the subscribers to the Pahiatua bureau with a gold wristlet watch, suitably inscribed. The delegates of the North .Island, Sheep ; Dog Association Who are at present in' Mastertort. have signed ;an illuminated address for presentation to Mr W. 0.. Rutherford, of Culverden, the Patron of the Association*.

At a social gathering at EaipAroroa few days back, Messrs H; R. arid H. who are-leaving thercbV trict, were each the recipient of a handsome-hearth nig and mats to match. Mr A. Falkner made the presentation on behalf of the residents of the district. , The Hon. R. H. Rhodes was at> Hamilton yesterday, and visited the winter show and the hospital. He also received a number-of deputations. He visited Cambridge in the evening. To-day he visits Te Awamrctu and the Tokanui Mental Hospital, and goes on to the Waitoawj eSrvw later in the. day. ; ,

At St. .Mark's Chureh, Carterton, «n Wednesday, Mr H. N. Joyee, of Masterton, wa« .married to, Misa K. Skipper, of Dalefield. Th> oareaeny. was performed by the Rev. R. Young. A reception was subusequently held at the Dalefield Hall. On their ?e----tmrn from their honejween t#qr, Mr and Mrs Joyce will ion; v V.,".'..•''.,."'...',„.: '. ,'C;:\, '<'./<.'"&