PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14141, 11 June 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

General Booth, of the 'Salvation Army, is at present On a visit to Christchurch. ' Messrs William Millar and William ■' H. Booth have been appointed members of the Wairarapa District LicenY sing Committee. ' Mr J. W. Boynton, Stipendiary Magistrate, has been appointed chairman of all Appeal Boards set up during the vear .1520, in connection with the grading of teachers. The friends of Messrs .Arthur and Harry Tuxford, ‘‘Gleulean/’ Masterton, will regret to learn of the death of their youngest sister, Miss Ruby Tuxford, which occurred yesterday at X “The Gums,” Eskdale, Hawke’s Bay. 1 Mrs Yone Suzuki, of Japan, is des- ’ cribed as the richest woman in the world, with an estimated fortune of from thirty to forty 'million . pounds. .She owns most of the shares in the great firm of Suzuki and Co., which /•controls the steel industry of Japan, ‘fleet of 60 steamships, and has inall over the world. At the meeting of managers of the

Mastertou Technical School last night, . a resolution of sympathy with Mr A. W- Hogg and. family in his recent indisposition was passed unanimously, the members expressing the hope that Mr Hogg would soon be sufficiently re- - covered to take his place on the Board of Management, of’which he has been . a member for many years. An, enjoyable parcel evening was tendered, by tlie friends of Miss Ethel

Welch at the P. and A. tea pavilion, > -Carterton, on Wednesday night, in 1 honour of her approaching marriage. Proceedings went with a vim throughout, and the time passed pleasantly with dancing, games and cards. At ah appropriate interval the parcels were opened by Miss Welch amid applause, and revealed to view many useful and ornamental gifts. Mrs A. J. Parton replied on behalf of her daughter, and in a neat little speech expressed her delight and pleasure' to everyone for , attendance, ana to the promoters the kindly thought which had. them to arrange such a jolly farewell gathering. - Dancing was “then: resumed, anti the 1 function' concluded at midnight with-' the'Ringing- of “Auld Lang Syne.;.”"• rK ‘‘ " i ’ ‘ The wedding took place yesterday, af- ■ fernoon in St. Geprge’s, Church, W.orscr Bay, of .Miss .Ehsify Frances Porritt, voungest daughter of the Rev. T. Foyritt, of Seatounj. and formerly of, the Wairarapa, to Mr Reginald Revell,. of Koromatua 1 , Frankton Junction, son of the late Mr F. Revell, at one time resident in Wellington. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. .T. H. Sykes ■ formerly of Tinui), assisted by the Ven A,rchdeacon Johnson (Formerly of Masterton). The bridesmaids were Miss' Babel. Hooke, and two little girls, Mary and Betty Sykes, the daughters, -of Mr and Mrs Sykes. The best main was Mr-Pearson. After the ceremony .a reception held in the Masonic Hall at Seatoun, which had /been very prettily decorated for the occasion. Mrs Sykes, the wife of the Rev. J. H. Sykes, from whose house <the wedding party set out, assisted Mr Porritt to receive the guests. Among them were several old family friends, including t Rev. LT.. Paterson. Later in the ?rnoon Mr and Mrs Reginald Revell for the north. The bridegroom is a .returned soldier, and only arrived back in New Zealand; towards the end ■of last year. A very old, esteemed resident of Ak-' aroa has passed to her rest in the per...»sou of Mrs John ‘Staples.- The news came as a shock to a very wide circle *v of friends, for the deceased lady had led, a .very active life, and it was not known that her illness had taken such, a* serious character. About th i'Ce or four weeks ago, however, it became evident to her medical adviser that her health was failing fast, and she passed 'peacefully away on -Tuesday morning. The late Mrs Staples >vaa bom in the ■County of Fermanagh, Ireland, in: 185.1, and came (o New Zealand in the ship Hereford about 1871, lauding at Lyttelton and coming on to 1 Akaroa not long afterwards. She was married at ■Christchurch in 1877 to Mr John Staples. and had lived at Akaroa over since. She had a wide circle of per- ’*'■ sonal friends all over the Peninsula. Her husband and a family of six children are left to mourn the loss of a devoted wife and mother. The memS of the family are: Mr Fred StapHoanga, North Auckland, and fory of Mastertou; Mr James Staples, Christchurch; Mi- Frank Stapled, Masterton; Mr Arthur Staples. Gore; Mrs Chas. Jordan, Lower Mangorei, Taranaki; -and Miss Florence Staples, . Akaroa. There are sixteen grandchil;Mlren. .' , .