PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 June 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss Betty Boustead, Postmistress at Clareville, who recently had the misfortune to break her airm, has now resumed duty. To-morrow afternoon in the Wsira-' rapa P. and A. -Society meeting rojy, Carterton, the Bank of New clients and friends are making a presentation to Mr E. F. N. Morgan, the retiring manager, and extending a welcome to Mr 0. C. Callender, who is succeeding Mr Morgan. At the annual meeting of the Greytown Croquet Club the following officers were elected: —-Patroness, Mrs Tate; President, Mrs Gregorr; vice-pre-sidents, Mesdames Isaacson and Frasetr Thompson; secretary, Mrs Horton; ground committee, Messrs Isaacson and Hayden; match committee, Mesdames Gregor, Horton and Haigh; delegate to Association, Mrs Haigh; all members constitute a general committee. A Sydney cable states that the death occurred ta Maroubra of Mr Joseph J. Smith, a veteran New Zealand journalist, aged 74. He was one of the owners of the old “Wairarapa Star” and vrSt prominent in New Zealand Masonic circles. The “Wairarapa Star” was founded by Mr Joseph Ivess, in 1881. The editor was the late Hon. A. W. Hogg and Mr J. J. Smith was printer. Messrs Smith and Hogg subsequently acquired the paper and controlled it until Mr 'Hogg entered in 1890. Mr Smith was a lington, Shropshire, England. to New Zealand in IS6-4 in the ship mSWilliam Eyre and was apprenticed fo Mr'A. K. Arnott, of the “Wairarapa Mercury,” which later became the “Standard.” Subsequent to the dissolution of his partnership with Mr Hogg in Masterton, Mr Smith acquired a printing business in Palmerston North.