PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 2 September 1924, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. A. Hay has been re-elected chairman of the Tararua Dairy Co. Miss E. Euane, formerly of the Eeatherston telephone exchange staff, has joined the staff of the Otaki Sanitorium.

A Sydney cable states that Madame Melba is suffering from a severe attack of influenza and bronchitis. Her condition is causing anxiety. 'Mr W. T. Lill, of Ashburton, who stayed with the Kev. J. Cocker, Albert street, during the week-end, returned to Wellington yesterday afternoon. The following have been nominated as directors of the Masterton Dairy Company:—Messrs. W. H. Buick, J. E. Kjestrup, C. van Praagh (retiring directors) and Albert Welch (Mt. Bruce). Plunket Nurse Gillespie, who lias been in charge of the Martiuborough, Greytown and Featherston districts for the past two years, and who has been transferred to Timaru, left for the latter place yesterday. The Bev. A. Hodge, of Napier, and formerly of Masterton, has accepted the eu-re of the parish of Taradale, to which he was unanimously elected by the vestry on the nomination of the Diocesan Board of Nominations. Mr. Hodge will enter upon his duties at the beginning of October. Johannes Zeitman, the last of the Boars who made the Great Trek with Piet Retief in 1836, has died in Johannesburg at the age of 107. He took part in the battle of Blood river, and nearly every native war since. Ho married twice, and had four sons and 14 daughters. Dr. Elaine Gurr (formerly of Timaru), who has been . specialising in gynaecology and children’s diseases in several of the'hospitals in Great Britain, returned to New Zealand' by the lonic yesterday. Dr. Gurr had the good fortune to study under the famous specialist, Dr. Eric Pritchard, in the Children’s Hospital, Vincent Square, London, and in Dublin she spent some time in the Cooriibe Hospital. _ In Edinburgii and Glasgow sh e did principally antenatal work, and in the latter city she was studying under Dr. Kerr Munro and Dr. Samuel Cameron, specialists in gynaecology. TrfJDo"doii she came across several New Zealand women doctors, among them Dr. Hilda Chairman (daughter of Sir Frederick and Lady Chapman), Dr. Stevenson, of Dunedin (who is to return to New Zealand next week), I)r..Crawley, of Auckland, and Dr. Edith Mayo, of Hawke’s Bay (who is specialising in children’s diseases).