PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 January 1932, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. Miller, S.M., has Masterton after a holiday in the Sounff§ district. Mrs. Miller has gone on to Dunedin.

The engagement is announced of Pima Doris, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Kent, of Pongftxoa, to Albert Leslie, eldest' son of H. Pickering, of Eketahuna. Mr. and Mrs. E. Baruch, of Sydney, who have been visiting the latter’s sister, Mrs. f>. H. Nathan, of “Llandaff,” Masterton, leave for Australia to-mor-row.

Mr Theodore Tresize, accompanied by his mother, leaves by the Port Melbourne on February 4 for 'London. Ho has accepted a post on the producing staff of an Elstree picture company.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton A. and P. - Association, the president, Mr. J. M. James, made reference to the splendid work done in the interests of the association by the IsMR Mr. R. L. McLaren and the late M^~

A. J. Speedy. He said both were men of sterling character and their services would be lost not only to tion but to the whole district.^

The general manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Mr. A. C. Davidson, arrived at Auckland by the Aaorangi from Sydney on a business visit to the Dominion, which will embrace an inspection of the bank’s branches in the principal centres of the Dominion. In 1922 he was manager of the Gisborne branch of the bank, and in 1924 he was stationed at Wellington as sub-insp.ector. Votes of condolence were passed by the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday afternoon with the relatives of the late Messrs. R. L. McLaren and A. J. Spebdy, deceased committeemen, and Mr. T. Taylor, an old member, and with Mr. E. Rose on the loss of his sister, Mrs. F. Percy on the loss of her daughter, Mr. D. F. Freeman on the loss of his daughter, Mr. G. Hyde on the loss of his brother, Mr. G. FenwicJ&Vn the loss of his mother, and Mr T. Hume on the loss of his sister.

Justice the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, LLD., D.CJL., of the United States Supreme Court, has resigned owing to health reasons, a Washington cablegram reports. A son of the wellknown novelist and poet of the same name, the Hon. O. W. Holmes was born in 1841 and served and attained the rank of lieut.-eolonel in the American Civil War. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts from 1892 to 1902 and in the latter year became an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.