PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 21 July 1924, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr P. Tulloch (Pahiatua) has left on a business visit to Auckland.

Mr H. Knowles, of Napier, will manage the Hawkes Bay Rugby team which visits Masterton on Saturday.

A London cable announces the death of Mr W. 8. Davidson, formerly general manager of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company.

Mr D. Foster (Ballance), who has been an inmate of the Pahiatua hospital for some weeks, has loft that institution.

A cable from London states that Mr Oswald Mosley has accepted the Labourites’ invitation to contest Mr Neville Chamberlain’s scat at the next election.

A London cable states that the rumoured possibility of the Duke of York accepting the Dominion Gover-nor-Generalship is authoritatively denied.

Mr and Mrs Albert Beetham, “Ardsley,” attended the wedding at Pahiatua of Miss Kathleen Bolton, daughter of Mr and All's 8. Bolton, to Mr J. G. Grant, of Woodville. Miss Alary Beetham was brdesmaid. Air E. A. Ransom, member for Pahiatua, has been appointed Junior Libwho left for South Africa, as a memwohe left for South Africa, as a member of the New Zealand Parliamentary delegation. Air Ransom has been for 36 years a resident of Danne▼irke. For nine years he has been Mayor of Dannevirke, and he has also been chairman of the Hawkes Bay War Relief Association, president of the Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the Efficiency Trustees during the war. ALr Ransom at present holds the position of chairman of the Dannevirke Power Board, and is a member of the executive of the Electric Power Boards’ Association of New Zealand.

The friends of Airs George Spackman will regret to hear of her death, which took place at her residence (Bentley street) on Saturday after noon. The late Mrs Spackman, who was 80 years of age, was born in Staffordshire, England, and arrived in New Zealand in 1857 in the ship Alma. She was a daughter of the late Air and Airs T. Wagg, and has been a resident of Masterton for the last 45 years. Her husband predeceased her by 21 years. She leaves a family of one daughter (Airs W. Sutherland, of Greytown), and four sons, Messrs W. J., R. H. and L. H., of Masterton, and J. A., of Auckland. She also leaves two brothers, Messrs T. Wagg (Alasterton) and J. Wagg (Lower Hutt).