PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1933, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Miss Bertha Preston, Pownall Street, is visiting Wanganui and New Plymouth.

Mrs J. H. Stieht (nee Sybil Caselberg) cabled her parents in Masterton yesterday from Los Angeles: “All well, no damage from the earthquake in our vicinity.”

, The death occurred suddenly at the Taumarunui Hospital recently of Mr. Aliek Johns Wills, a highly respected resident of Ohura and formerly of Masterton and Upper Hutt, at the age of 55 years.

A London cablegram reports the death of Mr. John Leslie Urquhart, the mining engineer, who came prominently before the public some years ago in connection with mining concessions in Russia and Siberia, which the Soviet declined to allow to be worked.

Captain Clayton, late of the Royal ’Sussex Regiment, has returned to New Zealand to visit relatives, states a Wellington message. He is an Aucklander and has been away from the Dominion since 1914. Captain Clayton was stationed on the Indian frontier in the Peshawar district until eighteen months ago, when he retired from the army.

The death occurred at Paekakariki on Tuesday of Mrs Mary Helen Gibson, wife of Mr. A. W. Gibson. The late Mrs Gibson, who had been in failing health for some time, was 36 years of age, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs A. Stevenson, of Cross Creek. Besides her husband she leaves a family of three children, who will have the sympathy of the community in their sad loss. The interment took place at the Paraparaumu Cemetery yesterday afternoon.