PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 March 1932, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr J. S. Jessep, deputy chairman of the Unemployment Board, who has been indisposed for the past six weeks as the result of a motoring accident, . has resumed his duties.

Dr. J. Alex Doctor returned day to Auckland by the Aorangi after a trip to Great Britain, the Continent, and India. He expects to reach Wellington on Monday. The friends in Masterton of Mr Finest (“Ponto”) Dockery, will regret to hear that he is seriously ill in a private hospital, Wellington. In his day Mr Dockery was a prominent Wairarapa and Wellington representative footballer.

The death occurred yesterday of Mrs Margaret Brown, Avife of Mr John Brown, an employee for many years on Mr Hugh Morrison’s Awatoitoi Station. The funeral will leave the residence at , Awatoitoi to-morrow, at 2 p.m., reaching the Masterton Cemetery about 2.45 p.m.

At yesterday’s meeting of' thwMastertonA. and P. Association motions of condolence were passed with the idatives of the late Messrs. W. T. Douglas (a life member), C. Graham, J. Nicol and also to Mr H. A. Evans in the loss of his father and Mr H. J. R. Byford in the death of his mother.

At the annual meeting of the Wairarapa High School Parents’ Association last night the election of officers resulted as follows: —Chairman, Mr H. E. Pither; lion, secretary, Mr A. W. Charleson; committee, Mesdames Pither, Tomlinson, BoAvden, Mackay, Morice, Charleson, Cave, Freeman, Drummond, Coleman, Denbee, Thomas, Barr, Hamill, Dorset, McLaren, Woodhouse, Lamb and DaAvson, Messrs. Bowden, Tomlinson, Bell, Thomas, Freeman, Moriee, Mackay, Russell, Coleman, Hatch, Cave and DaAvson.