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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 4

11. A. R. Dunderdale is sent a patient in Glenwood Private Hospital. ... Mr E. D. Good lias been appointed Controller of Customs to succeed Dr. G. Craig, who retires at the end of this month. Mrs P. Collis has returned to her home at Dundas, N.S.W., after having spent two months’ holiday in Masterton. -A, A Lonfion cable announces that it can be definitely stated that Lord Trencliard will not be the next Gover-nor-General of Australia.

The death is announced, by cable, of the sixth Earl of Ely, aged 8Q Ely Lodge, Enniskillen. He was tJ* owner of 49,000 acres. The heir is Viscount Loftus.

At last night’s meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association a vote of sympathy to Mr L. H. Smart, secretary of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society, in his recent bereavement, was passed.

The President of the Masterton A. and P. Association (Mr W. F. McLaren) was appointed by the committee last night the Association’s delegate to the conference of the Royal Society at Wellington on 25th June. A visitor to the Wairarapa is Mr H. A. Goudie, of Rotorua. Mr Goudie is an authority on euealypts and was at one time connected with the State Forest Service nurseries and plantation at Wliakarewarewa, Rotorua.

The engagement is announced of Miss Eunice Swanger, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs G. A. Swanger, Kliaudallali, to Mr Arthur Stubbings, only son of Mr and Mrs A. N. Stubbings of Masterton.

Nurse Cowan, who lias been in charge of the Eketaliuna Dental Clinic, has received notice of transfer to Napier, for which place she nail leave towards the end of May. L®rse M. Robbie, who is at present will replace Nurse Cowan. A Press message from .Wellington states that Mr J. W. Heenan, Assistant Crown Law Draughtsman, who is well known in the athletic world, has been appointed Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs in succession to Mr Malcolm Fraser.

At the meeting of the general committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association last night a letter was received from the North Island A. and P. Conference asking the Association to appoint two delegates to attend the annual conference at Palmerston North on 20th June. Messrs R. M. Perry and J. Gray were appointed delegates.. Mr L. F. P. Taylor, who was very seriously burned in an aeroplane crash at Jolinsonville in September, 1932, and who has been undergoing a series of plastic and surgery operations in London, is to leave England next week, and is expected to reach New Zealand about 25th May. Mr Taylor has expressed himself as quite satisfied with his appearance. , Jk The death of Anna Kathejftte Green, tho noted authoress, is repoFted in a cablegram from New York. Deceased was born at Brooklyn in 1846. She took a B.ASdggree at the Ripley Female College, Poultney, Vermont, in 1867, and married Charles Rohlfs in 1884. She was the author of “The Sword of Damocles,” “The Mill Mystery,” and many other mystery novels. The Acting-Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, left Wellington last evening by the Limited express for Auckland on his way to London,, where he will attend conferences with the British authorities on the meat question. He was accompanied by Mrs Coates, the Public Service Commissioner, Mr P. D. N. Versehaffelt, and the Minister’s personal secretary, Miss 11. D. Montague. At last night’s meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association the president (Mr W. F. McLaren) made reference to the death of the late Mr Adam Mackay. The late Mr Mackay had done excellent work for the Association and would have been present again at the Show this year but for his illness which had proved fatal. He moved a vote of condolence to the relatives, which was carried, members standing.

Advice has been receiA* •kthat the Trinity College of Music for the North Island this year are: —Music, Mr C. H. Adolph Mann; elocution, Mr Alexander Watson. Mr Mann is expected to reach Wellington early in July. Mr Watson has been appointed as the specialist examiner for New Zealand in the subject of elocution, and he is expected in the North Island early in NoA-ember. It is intended that he Avill A’isit Auckland and Wellington onl\ r in the North Island, and then proceed to the South Island.

Members of the staff of the Masterton branch of the Bank of New South Wales assembled yesterday to fareAvell the manager, Mr A. St.J. Huddleston, who is retiring. On behalf of the staff, Mr B. F. Hall, accountant, made a presentation to Mr Huddleston, accompanied by their best Avfishes for his future happiness. In acknoAvledging the expression of good wishes and the gift, Air Huddleston recounted few anecdotes of his experiences as a banker on the Otago goldfields. Opportunity Avas also taken to welcome the new manager, Mr W. Y. Brown.

A London cable announces the death of Douglas Mackinnondfihillic Hamil’nn Cochrane, Baron 1C47; Bt., K.C.8., K.C.V.0., lfitH Earl of Dundonald, aged 83. He entered the 2nd Life Guards in IS7O and served in the Nile Expedition of 18S4-S5, also in General SteAvart’s desert march for the relief of Khartoum and rode with despatches, across the desert, announcing tho fall of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon. Deceased commanded mounted troops during the South African War, saAv much fighting there, aauts: mentioned in despatches six times andl Avas 'lyroraoted Major-General for distinguished services. He commanded the Canadian Militia 1902-4 and served overseas in the European War.