PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14959, 10 July 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mrs; Stanley McLaren (Lansdowne) is seriously ill, and lias been admitted’ to a private hospital. Mr. F. E. Tyler (Carterton) has been elected a member of the Wairarapa Automobile Association. Mr. Q. Donald (Featlherston) has been re-elected to tlie Council of theClydesdale Horse Society. The funeral of the late Mrs J. Motley will take place to-morrow (Wednesday), leaving St. Patrick's Churcb at 10 a.m.

Mr W. G. Walker, who was injured in the Ongarue railway disaster, is . a brother of Miss E. Walker,- of Pahiatua. t

It is announced by cable from Sydney that Doctor Raymond (Rhodes Scholar) is not available for the New ■ Zealand tour of the New South Wales Rugby Union team, as he will sail for England. iHw A Sydney cablegram states that sock, centre half of the New Zealand Association team, is unlikely to return to New Zealand, as he has accepted a lucrative position at Cessnock with a view to playing with the local club. Mr Charles Hill, of Marama Crescent,. Wellington, for many years a member of the firm of Charles Hill and Sons, and a member of the well-known musical family of Wellington, died on Sunday, after a brief illness, at the age off 6S' years. Mr Hill, who retired from the firm only a year ago, last week underwent a minor operation, which was successfully performed, but he collapsed suddenly on Sunday. Mr Hill leaves a widow and a family of four —Mr Charles M. Hill (engineer in the Public Works Department), Mrs R. R. Orr (off the Hutt), and Misses May and Marjorie Hill. His brothers are Messrs. J. W., E., J. and W. Hill (of Wellington), and ; Mr Alfred Hill, of Sydney. His sisters are Mrs Mclndoe, of Dunedin, and Miss Minnie Hill. Deceased was well known in Masterton. M. Skalski, the famous pianist, is now in Masterton, is young, only Cflt typically Polish and very in appearance. He is taking a few days’ rest this week. Masterton has , been particularly cold this winter, and ’ even our visitor, accustomed to the rigorous temperatures of European winters, feels it keenly. M. Skalski, like so many millions of his served in the R early part of the wt saw a week occupied it, his regiment I V §l demobilised at*- if’ 1 - ;,lH than he has ing. Three Russian do m inin :>?V-..w Vladivostock ing about two years. Mr Evan Perry, e •'ll the English Electric C formerly chief electrical e.gl the hydro branch, Public partment, New Zealand, was a to Palmerston North on Saturday. was accompanied by Mrs Parry and Messrs A. S. Herbert, from Sydney, and G. F. Maefarlane, Wellington. Mr Parry was keenly interested in the developments and programme of th® Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Boar<L and motored to Bunnythorpe with tjjjftfc Power Board’s engineer (Mr W. . Waters) to view the sit© of the substation, and work of erecting lines which is now in progress. Yesterday, afternoon the party left for Wanganui, en route to New Plymouth, to view the new hydro development at the latter town, and other powder schemes now in progress. Subsequently the party will proceed to Waikaremoana and Arapuni.