PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 17 September 1932, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. C. Major, of Masterton, accompanied by Miss Gjwen Major, will leave Wellington on Tuesday next for Sydney, en route to England. The friends of Mr. A. Styles will be pleased to learn that he is making satisfactory progress after an operation to his throat.

Mr. Vickery Eldon Burridge, of Masterton, solicitor, was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand on Thursday by Mr. I Justice Ostler, on the motion of Mr. R. R. Burridge, L.L.B. Brigadier-General H. E. Hart, Administrator of Western Samoa, accompanied by Mrs Hart and Miss Betty Hart are arriving in New Zealand on the next trip of the Maui Pomare, on a sliort holiday visit to the Dominion.

At a meeting of the stewards of the Wairarapa Racing Club at Featherston on Thursday afternoon, Mr. W. E. Bidwill was unanimously re-elected chairman—a position he has occupied since the amalgamation in 1890, fortytwo years ago. Mr. Bidwill is also filling his twenty-first year as the club’s president. Mr. John Dalrymple, who was wellknown and respected in Wellington, and in the Wairarapa, Manawatu, and North Taranaki districts, died this week at the age of 66 years. The late Mr. Dalrymple came to New Zealand from the Midlands of England in the ’eighties, and settled near Masterton. For many years he was engaged in farming in the Wairarapa and later was in business in Carterton and Longburn. He was one of the pioneers in New Zealand the commercial side of tlie picture theatre business, being for a lengthy period part-owner of the Lyric in Auckland, at one time the largest and most modern theatre in the Dominion. The late Mr. Dalrymple was a keen bowler. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs A. Stace and Miss D. Dalrymple, of Kelburn, and a son, Mr. Walter Dalrymple, of New Plymouth.