PERSONAL ITEMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7717, 6 May 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Nurse Walton will visit Waipa* in the interests of the Plunket Sociq next Tuesday, as advertised. Mr W. F. Marsh, Commissioner , Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor < Westland, is to succeed Mr W. } Skinner as Commissioner of Cron Lands for Hawke’s Bay. Cr. A. W. Cook has been appoint* to represent the Waipawa Couni Council at the War Relief Associate Conference at Waipukurau next iv e , nesdiay. Mr J. Barnes, who has been a res demt of Waipukurau for a nut betr of years, is leaving to take up icysition as manager of a bakery llapier. He will be much missed tl.e sister town, especially in bowlii circles, and his departure will | greatly regretted. Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, M. 8., Cli.l Edin., who has been granted the tei porary rank of captain while et ployed as permanent medical oflic, on a New Zealand transport, is t| first woman to leave the Dominion c such duly. Dr. Gunn was previous] attached to the Trentham Hospit staff. Mrs Tareha, senior, a well-kno* figure in Hawke’s Bay for many yea past, died yesterday morning, ff ceased was born in February, 181 She took part in the fight against tl Te Hauhaus at Omarunui, undi Colonel Whitmore; also in the figj against Te Ivooti, which took place i Gisborne, when Karauria was killet She carried him back from the iiria line to a place in the rear, a distant of over a mile, over very broken com try, showing the physical strength* such a woman.