PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 December 1925, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. A. D. McLeod (Minister of Lands) is expected to return from the south on Sunday. Lieutenant-Colonel B. Hughes has been appointed Honorary Colonel of the Wellington-West Coast Regiment. Dr. Cyril Norwood, master of Marlborough College, and at one time Admiralty Clerk has been appointed headmaster of Harrow, in succession to the Rev. Lionel Ford, Dean designate of York. Mr A. Balfour Dawson (formerly of To Ore Ore) 'has been appointed an inspector in the Lands and Survey Department at Te Kniti. He has recently been engaged as a mercantile marine officer in the Far East. The death occurred at Danncvirke on Wednesday of Airs J. AlcPhcrson, mother of Air James AlcPhcrson, of Mastertoil. The deceased was one of the oldest settlers of Danncvirke, and was noted for her good work amongst the early settlers. The following have been appointed .Justices of the Pence:—Messrs Roy W. Barton (Featherstou), Walter H. Day (Greytown), P. C. Fraser (Kilbirnie, and formerly of Masterton), 11. G. Grceott (Pahiatua), and iR. 11. S. Ryder (Langdale). The following honorary aides-de-camp to His Excellency the GovernorGeneral have been appointed: —Captain Frederick Avenel Sommerville, D. 5.0., -R..N.. chief officer, commanding New Zealand section. Captain James Stuart Mae lure ii Ritchie, R.N., commanding H.AI.S. Diomede. Air. A. E. Cooke, of Auckland, the well-known Rugby footballer, who v\as a member of the 1024 New Zealand team which toured Great Britain, Franco and Canada, left for Napier, yesterday, where it is .understood! he lias been offered a position through the good services' of Air. N. AlcKenzie, the Hawke’s Bay Rugby selector. The following officers have been nominated in connection with the Court Marquis of Normanby, A. 0.1.. Carterton:—C.R., Bro. H. Burgess; S.C.R., Bro. A. Anderson; Secretary, Bro. R. J. Chapman; treasurer, Bro. A. F. Pink; SAW, Bro. J. Workman; J.W./ Bro. H. Workman; J. W., Bro. A. Viekerstaff; 5.8., Bro. W. Miller; J. 8., Bro! J. Fisher; M.S., Bro. C. Moore. The death occurred at Gisborne of Miss Bedford Slierriff, one of the.oldest residents of Poverty Bay. Alr-si hjhernff was the daughter of the late Air James Dunlop, of Te Kupcnga station, m the Te Aria Valley. The notorious fe Kooti used to work for Air Dunlop (sta tes an exchange) when 'lie landed back in Povertv Bav after his escape from the Chatlmms, and lie sent word to Te Kupenga, urging Mr and Mrs Dunlop and his family not to leave their home, as lie would not harm them. Airs Dunlop, however, became alarmed, i\ruh ear ' rving a baby, afterwards Airs 1 itt, oi her back, tramped to Whareongaonga. Airs’ Shcrriff and another sister ; nt the time of the massacre were absent from the district attending a school m A.ue elaiul. To get to school in.Mliosc day* Mrs Shcrriff and her sister tramped -0 miles through scrub, to Gisborne, and took passage by a small schooner to Auckland. ; ’ -'