PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17934, 30 July 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr A. M Pickford, of Wellington, director of the Wanganui Paramount Municipal Pictures, arrived in Wanganui yesterday. He returns to the Empire City to-day. By private wire wo learn of the death of Mist May Kilgour, daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Kilgour, which took place at their residence, Greymouth, last evening, after a painful illness extending over many years. The death is announced of Mr Edmond A- Wickes, a native of Greymouth, who was closely associated with the timber industry on the West Coast, and among the foremost to open up negotiations for the export of red pine and other timber to Australia. Mr T. P. Pain, who has been on the Christchurch Magistrate's Court staff for nearly six years, left on Monday night for Wanganui, whither he has been transferred. At the Magistrate’s Court office on Monday Mr Pain was presented by his fellow' officers with a travelling bag. Mr S. E. McCarty, S.M., in making the presentation, said that Mr Pain had proved himself a most efficient member of the staff, and while they all regretted that he was leaving Christchurch they rejoiced that the change meant a well-deserved promotion. Mr W. A- D. Banks, chief clerk, also >'c.ke of the efficient manner in which Mr Pain had done his work. He had made himself popular among his fellow officers, and had faithfully served his apprenticeship in the service of the Justice Department.— Press. Mr Frank .Levy, in advance of the Allan Wilkie' Comedy Company, who appear in Maltby’s great comedy, “The Rotters,” at the Opera. House on Wednesday and Thursday evenings next, arrived in Wanganui last night. Mr Levy is very well known in theatrical circles in this country, having piloted many shows through the Dominion, including Allen Doone on his last tour. Weddings u.f New Zealand Interest include the marriage at St. James’s, Spanish Place, London, on June 7. of Pedro of Vargas, of Bogota, Republic of Columbia, and Miss Dorothea Low, daughter of Mr David Low, of Christchurch. On June 2, at Castlehill Church, Campbelltown, the marriage was solemnised of Surgeon-Lieut. James A. Watson, R.N., H.M.S. Woolwich, son of Mr and Mrs William Watson, of Wellington, to Marjorie Christian Dick, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Mathew Dick, Auchmillan. The service was choral. Those at the church included the second Campbelltown Brownie Pack, of which the bride was formerly leader, and at the close of the ceremony the Brownies, in their quaint uniform, preceded the bridal party and scattered bluebells in their path, and then formed up. a guard of honour outside.