AL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 January 1932, Page 4

AL ITEMS

HHHlifficablegraill announces the deathof Mr. Lytton Strachey, the well-known English writer and biographer. Mr. 11. S. Sturgeon, park superintendent, is to attend the conference of park superintendents to commence at u Christchurch on Tuesday of next week. Later he is to visit Dunedin before returning to Masterton.

Master Walter Dyer, eldest son of Sergt, T. H. Dyer and Mrs. Dyer, Masterton, who is a pupil at Sacred Heart College, Auckland, was successful in patsing the Public Service Entrance examination.

A Cairo cable states that a Royal Air Force aeroplane, with a doctor and nurse aboard, has been sent to Luxor, to attend Lord Reading, who is; seri- ■> ously ill. 'jMt A quiet wedding took place at Wei- \ lington on Monday, when Mr. Alan Victor (“Peter”) Jury, youngest son of Mrs. E. Jury, of Papawai, was married to Miss Isabelle Brunton, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, J.

Brunton, of Greytown. • , fain the University of New Zealand ~ examinations, A. X. Prior, of the Wairarapa High School, 1769 marks, and T. A. Watson, Wairarapa High School, 1706 marks, obtained University National Scholarships, while P. R. Barrer, Wairarapa High School, 1345 marks, passed with credit. . ’

The election of officers of the teachers’ summer school for the ensuing year, a Whangarei Press Association message states, included the GovernorGeneral (Lord Bledisloe), as patron. Mr. F. Milner, of Waitaki, was reelected president. The Dominion executive comprises: Messrs. A. Wilson (Taranaki), L. Donaldson (Opua), L. Brown (Otago), G. Head (Canterbury), R. D. Thompson (Whangarei), Misses J". Hume (Palmerston North), W. Mansfield (Auckland), K. Kennedy (Christchurch), and F. Fogelburg (Wellington). The secretary and treasurer is Mr. G. Ashbridge (Wellington). The venue next year will be either Blenheim, Timaru, or Invercargill, as the executive decides.

A very largo and representative attendance of mourners at the funeral of the late Mrs. L. Nielsen, at Mauriceville West yesterday afternoon, bore witness to the respect and Tegard in which she was ‘ held and to the sympathy felt with her relatives. Amongst those present were a number of Mr. L. Nielsen’s fellow-directors on the board of the Mauriceville Dairy Company and the member for the district, Mr. G. R. Sykes. A wealth of beautiful wreaths was received. Services at the homestead and at the Mauriceville .West Cemetery were conducted by the Rev. A. Christensen, of j Palmerston North. The pall-bearers ■ were the late Mrs. Nielsen’s six sons, Messrs. Charles Bernard, Arthur, Hans, Harry Alfred, Norman and George Leonard Nielsen.