PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 12 August 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Governor-General, Lord Bledioloe, and. Lady Bledisloe, will leave Wellington for Christchurch to-day and will return to Wellington on Bunday morning. His Excellency preaid--cd at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday morning.—(P.A.) Mr. and Mrs J. Mulvaney are leav ing Pahiatua shortly to reside in Feilding. Mr. and Mrs G. W. Sellar, of Masterton, who have been on a visit to Sydney, have returned home. Miss Betty Gill, a member of the New Plymouth Hospital staff, arrived in Masterton yesterday on a holiday visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs B. J. Gill, Cole Street. The death occurred at Auckland yesterday of Mr. E. B. De Lacey, the youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs A. H. De Lacey, of Carterton. The late Mr. Do Lacey, who served in the Great War, had been in failing health for some months. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of Mr. H. T. Hamilton, a former Judge of the New South Wales District Court and Court of Quarter Sessions. Mr. Hamilton was a leading golfer and vice-president of the Royal Agricultural Society. The friends of Mrs T. Woods of 31 Worksop Road, will regret to hear of the death of her mother, Mrs E. Welsford, aged 80 years, who passed away at an early hour yesterday morning ht the residence of her daughter. The funeral will take place at 2 p.m. today. The funeral of the late Dr. Frank Adrian Morton took place at tho Karori Cemetery on Sunday. The service was conducted by the Bev. F. M. Kemptherne, of the Church of England, Karori, and the pall-bearers were Messrs H. E. Jackson and R. W. Roydhouse (Carterton), H. -Oaselberg and R. Ellingham (Dannevirke), and A. Wylie and C. Murray (Wellington). The casket was covered with many beautiful wreaths, amongst them being tributes from the Carterton Savage Club, the Carterton Golf and Cricket elubs, and the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Clerical Society (composed of all Anglican Clergy in the Wairarapa) on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist’s Day, at Pahiatua, the opportunity was taken to farewell the late Vicar of Masterton (the Rev. W. Bullock). The Rev. W. J. Dun-ad (Viear of Featherston), on behalf of the clergy, presented Mr. Bullock with some books, aafeuring him that he would be greatly missed. He stated that they had always looked to Mr. Bullock for the lead in their studies, and he was sure they all regretted his going, at the same time extending to him their good wishes for the future. In reply, Mr. Bullock stated how grateful he was to the brethren, and that he had looked upon the meetings of the society in the different vicarages as amongst his happiest experiences in the Wairarapa.