PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14099, 16 April 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Harold Beauchamp has been reelected chairman of directors o± the Bank of New Zealand. Judges Jones and Gilfedder are presiding at a sitting of the Native Appellate Court in , !Hasterton to-dav. Mig s Christie, the well-known lecturer fan theosophy, intends to leave tor London on May 11 by the Tamui. Rev. J. Dawson, of Wellington, will ■conduct the services at the Mastertou Methodist Church on April -o t-h. Mr and Mrs W. E. Bidwill have booked passages to London, laamng Sydney by the Qrvieto on April —nd. The Rev. J. Cocker, of ilas ‘2’ will leave on Monday next for N«1 where he will spent a fortnight s lioJ day. \Mr R. 0. Smith will leave Mastertou ofeonday n&t on a health-recruiting tn|Fto ■ the Auckland district aaa •Queensland. \ Tress Association message L’°m Sydney states that Sir Joseph Ward is a parser « the Mawka wh left yesterday afternoon tor W ellm 0 ton.

Mr R, Duncan, Chief Inspector. or Machinery, has been appointed Secretary of the -Marine Department, i succession to the late Mr. Geo 0 t port. „ , „ Miss W. Fafeita, of the office staff of*the W.F.C.A., Eketahuna, is being transferred to the Cartertoa branch but in the meantime will rclie\ e at th Mastertou office. The Mastertou Progressive League has decided to.invite Lieutennut-Cdionc Mitchel, M.P.. of the W ellington Ex pension League,,to visit Mastertou add address members of the League. The Rev. Moses Ayrton, who -contested the Palmerston Norfh seat at-t t last election a, a Labon. conduct the services at the Masterton Methodist Church on May -ml. The engagement is announced of Hugo, eldest son of Mr and Mrs P. C. Fyx-'fh. of Palmerston North, to Mat SHfeecond daughter of Mrs J. Brown, of^Lshburton. H E Perrin has been elected Wary of the Red Star Foothal Club. Mr Caseley, at the meetm 0 _ the club last night, resigned the position, as he is shortly leaving the dis-

trict. The many friends of Mrs W. Allen, ..of Masterton, will learn with regro, . of the death of her youngest sister, Mrs L. Richardson, which took phue • .at the Bowen St. Private Hospital,

; W ellington. appointment of the following members of .the Board of Agncn tine was gazetted y*;sterdav:-te ? r J . jj - s son (president), and Messrs L. A\u , W. B. Grant, D. Marshall,;.HyMcFayy; W. R. May, A. S. Orbell, .I 11. X erret t, D W r . Westenra, J. C. -. N.. Gngg, Hall, and W. Perry. A pleasant little fnnf iqn. topk place .at “Brooklyn' 5 last evening, when Mrs J. M. Meredith, who is about to leave the house which she has so successfully controlled for many years, jib presented with a handsome dressease, by the boarders. Mr E. 1. Wynne-Bond, on behalf of the past •And present boarders, spoke very highly of the excellent manner in which Mrs Meredith had conducted “Brooklyn, 55 and wished her much happiness in her future career. Mr Tilley also, spoke -of fFe excellent qualities of the retiring hostess. The presentation was made by Mrs Bagley, and Mr Bagiev suitably responded on behalf of Mrs Mcieditk. - tasty supper was afterwards scryed, and the health of Mrs Meredith was diffink with musical honours. Music -and dancing brought a delightful little evening to a close. J ■! **"