PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 5 August 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Rev. J. Cocker, of Masterton, is at present in Auckland. Mr and Mrs W. J. Feast, of Ahiakouka. have returned from a visit to Auckland.

Mr H. N. Davie, of the Carterton Post Office staff, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. Mr Justice Hosking will preside at the Palmerston North sessions of the Supreme Court next week.

The Bishop of Waiapu paid a pastoral visit to Danncvirke this week.

Sergeant-Major Dawson, officer in charge of the war trophies exhibition, leaves Masterton this afternoon for Palmerston North. The staff of the Pahiatua. “Herald” made a presentation to Mr F. W. Reeves (the late relieving editor), prior to his return to Wellington. The resignation of Mr F. G. Carson, as secretary, was accepted at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Horticultural Society. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie will be Leader of the House until the return of the Prime Minister.

The death has occurred at Havelock North of Mr Michael Heenan, who was well-known in. the Bush district.

Mr H. A. Parkinson, organising secretary for the New Zealand Educational Institute, addressed a meeting of teachers at Dannevirke this week.

The pupils at the Pahiatua District High School presented Mr W. Scott, before his departure fdr Nireaha, with a shaving outfit.

Word has been received of the death of Dr. G. B. Longstaff. M.D., of Wandsworth, England. Dr. Longstaff is a cousin of Mr Donald Donald, of iMasterton, whom he visited some time ago.

The Right Rev. Dr. Sprott, Bishop of Wellington, will hold a confirmation service in Masterton on October 21. He will conduct similar services at Carterton and Greytown on the 23rd, and at Pahiatua on the 25th. Mr George Pitcaithly, who was at cne time on the £taff of the Main School, Napier, and was subsequently appointed Inspector of Schools at Auckland, has been appointed senior inspector for Nelson.

Mr A. B. Charters, M.A., formerly of the Wairarapa, who recently resigned the position gf Inspector of Schools, Wellington, to take up farming In the Whangarei district, has been elected unopposed to represent the Kiripaka Riding on the Whangarei County Council.

The death is announced of one of the pioneer settlers of Matamau, Mr Borthwick Haliburton, who had resided there for about 33 years. Born, in Scotland, he came to the Dominion 40 years ago and took up shepherding duties on the Woburn estate, owned by the late Mr Purvis Russell (now the thriving settlement of Hatuma). After a few years there he settled in Matamau.

On the morning of June 10 Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zealand, attended at Buckingham Palace to be sworn in as a member of the Privy Council. The London correspondent of the Auckland “Herald” says he has been sitting as a member of the Judicial Committee in Downing street, hearing an important Indian appeal, the other members of the committee being Lord Atkinson, Lord Phillimore, and Sir J. Edge (a retired Indian judge). Mr Massey, that “fine old man,” as General Sir Charles Townshend describes him amid approving cheers, in the House of Commons the other night* is the doyen of the Prime Ministers at to-day’s Imperial Conference (wrote Clubman in the Pall Mall and Globe of June 20 last). He has held the office of Premier of Ne.. Zealand for nine years continuously. Big, genial, and a breezy speaker, his 65 years sit lightly upon him. Mr Massey is an Irishman and a farmer.

Mr T. C. Carr, the well-known engineer, formerly of Napier, died in England a little more than a month ago at the age of 69. Mr Carr came out from England in the seventies under engagement to the Government and was employed in laying out the railway line in the neighbourhood of Takapau and Woodville. Subsequently he resigned his position and after some years of private practice was appointed engineer to the Napier Harbour Board. Since leaving New Zealand Mr Carr had been engaged as consulting engineer to a big firm of contractors. He was engaged on railway construction in France during the war. He leaves a widow (also wellknown in Napier) a son and two daughters (the elder of whom is in charge of the vocational work at Trentham Hospital.