PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 March 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Two members of the Gireytown Fire Brigade, Captain Gates and Foreman J. Workman, have completed 33 years’ service with the brigade*,. , Mr 0. S. Dempster, the /well known cricketer, was a visitor to Masterton yesterday on his return from Gisborne to which place lie accompanied Mr Sutcliffe, thei English cricketer. The death is announced from Wanganui of Mr Louis Cohen, aged 70, a barrister and solicitor. He was a well known patron of arts and amateur sport and was prominent in orchestral and vocal music circles. The engagement is announced of Miss Vera May Russell, fourth daughter of Mrs and the late Mr B. Russell, of Ilainna, Eketahuna, to Mr Arthur • Edward Yauglian, youngest son of Mr and the late Mrs'j. T. Vaughan, of Lower Ilutt. The Carterton branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, at the annual meeting, elected the following officers:—President, Miss Catherwood; vice-presidents, Mesdames Stent, Catherwood, Misses E. Liddell and J. Moncrieff; secretary, Rev. R. J. Liddell. A London cablegram (reports the death of Mr John Leslie' Urquliart, the mining engineer, who came prominently before the public some years ago in connection with mining sions in Russia, and Siberia, which the' Soviet declined to allow to be worked. Captain Clayton, late of the Royal Sussex Regiment, has returned to New Zealand to visit relatives, states a Wellington message. ’He is an Aucklander and has been away from the Dominion since 1914. Captain Clayton was stationed on tlie Indian frontier in the Peshawair district until eighteen months ago, when he retired'from the army. The death occurred at Pac-kakarihi of Mrs Mary Helen Gibson, wife of Mr A. W. Gibson, The late Mrs Glbcon, who had been.in failing health for some time, was 36 years of age, and was a. daughter of Mr .and Mrs) A. Stevenson, of Cross Creek. Besides heir husband she leaves a family of three children.