PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 April 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Miss M. Carman, of “Willow Bank,” Masterton, is visiting Wellington. Mr J. P. Brandon, formerly of Masterton, was re-elected Mayor of Otaki yesterday. Miss C. Watts, the district nurse at Porangahau (Hawke’s Bay), has accepted a position at the Masterton Hospital. The engagement is announced of Miss Duleie Whiteman, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Whiteman, of Mataroa, to Mr Jack Donald, youngest son Jof Mr and Mrs T. Donald', of Tduranga.- - ■■" - v ji. : Mr 'J. L.' McAiley/ •' of !m the ■Hericalstaff at the Palmerston North railway station, and formerly of Masterton, has resigned from the service to enter into business at Palmerston!: Mr McArley is to be tendered a farewell function bv the Palmerston North branch of the Railway Officers ’ Institute. The vacancy on the staff will be filled by Mr H." Hall, of Ohakuiie. Something of a record at School Committee work has been established by Mr 11. Walden, of Greytown, who is retiring this year after thirty-thjree years’ service. Actually it is thirtyfour years ago. since Mr Walden first became a member of the Greytown School Committee his ’continuous' service being broken' by the ' absenc.e :of one year from the Committee. § Mr W. J. Rogers, who defeated Mr Hope Gibbons for the Mayoralty of Wanganui yesterday, was formerly a resident of Masterton, where he took a prominent part in Y.M.C.A. and Church work. Mr Rogers’ friends will be pleased to hear of his success in public life at Wanganui. The death occurred at Carterton yesterday of Mrs A. J. Price, who was well known in both the Wairarapa and Wellington districts. Witli her husband, who was engaged in sawni’illiug in the Wairarapa and who predeceased her some 20 years ago, Mrs Price first went to Carterton in the early ’seventies. Some thirty years later she went to Wellington, where she had resided ever since. A few months ago the deceased went on a holiday visit to Carterton, but while there became ill and never recovered. Mrs Price, who was ’in her seventy-eighth year at the time of her'death, leaves one son and three daughters to mourn her loss.’ The son is Mr C. T. Price, of Nelson, and tlie ■daughters are; Mrs Aplin, of Carterton; Mrs Wellington; and Mrs Cohen, Wellington.