PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1927, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, and Lady Alice Fergusson, accompanied by their personal staff, are spending ten days in Marlborough Sounds at a residence at Nikau Bay placed at their disposal. It is hoped that the restful period will assist to restore Sir Charles Fergusson to full health. A Dublin Press Association cablegram states that Mr Tim Hcnly is •about to retire after being five years Governor-General of the Irish Free State. A Press Association message from Hamilton reports that the death occurred at Te Aroha yesterday of Mr A. jW. Edwards, a popular sportsman and -secretary of the Te Aroha Jocke/ “Club.

A vote of thanks and appreciatioi was passecljio Mrs J. 11. Kune at ; meeting oiSfhe Masterton branch o; the Plunket Society yesterday. Mr; .Kane and Miss Kane leave Masterton for Christchurch on Monday. The friends of Mr C. G. MeXab will regret to learn of the death of his wife, which occurred at the Public Hospital last night, after a brief illness. Deceased was a daughter of Mr and Mrs K James Scott, well-known settlers of Ko}otau (Carterton). She was aged 22 years, and leaves a husband and two young children to mourn her loss. The i'uneral takes place on Sunday, at 12.20 £>.m. The marriage took place on Wednesday morning, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Auckland, of Miss Doreen Allen, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. E. Allien, of Auckland, and formerly of the ißank of New Zealand, Carterton, to |Mr Fairbrother, second son of Air and Mrs Charles Fairbrother, of Dalefield. On their return to the Wai.rarapa, Mr and Mrs Fairbrother will fake up their residence at Belvedere -Street, Carterton. At the annual meeting 'of the •church mtlJB-ers of the Methodist Church, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: —Society .stewards, Messrs T. Cresswell, It. Jamieson, C. Judd, T. E. Beckett, 11. Price, W. J. Drew, A. Wellington and B. [Russell. Envelope steward: Mr H. .Nicholson. Sacramental stewards, Mrs White and Mrs Blinkhornc; members’ .representatives on the quarterly meetings, Messrs 11. King, S. Sleeman and •€. Nielson, and Mrs D. J. Williams and Airs A t Freeman.