PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 April 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr and Mrs Herbert Caselberg and family, of Hawera, are on a visit to Masterton. ~ /'VC. - A London cable announces the death of the well known artist, Mr Joseph Farquharson, hereditary chief of the Clan Farquharson.

The engagement is announced of Mr J. Smith, son of Mr and Mrs J. J. Smith, 130 Tasman Street, Wellington, late Castlepoint Lighthouse, to Miss Elsie Taylor, of Masterton. The Hon. E. A. Ransom, ActingPrime Minister, who opened an air service inaugurated by East Coast Airways, Ltd., between Gisborne and Napier yesterday, returned to Wellington this afternoon. ,

We have been requested to state, in connection with a paragraph that appeared in "our issue of Thursday regarding the death of Mr Harry Braggins, that his correct ‘name was Mr Harry Wenliam.

It is understood in Auckland that the appointment of Mr E. H. Northcroft, of Auckland, and Mr A. T. Donnelly, of Christchurch, to the Court Bench will be announced week. Interviewed at Christchurch ?ast night Mr Northcroft stated that he was not aware of his appointment. The resignation from the position of chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board of 'Mr D. Jones, recently appointed a member of the Executive Commission of Agriculture, is announced. Mr T. A. Duncan, of Hunterville, who has acted as deputy-chair-man, has been elected chairman. A great-granddaughter of Captain William Hobson, New Zealand’s first Governor, is Mrs C. T. Wedgwood, who, accompanied by her husband, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Makura, after visiting Soutli Africa and Australia. The descent from Captain Hobson is through her grandmother on her father’s side. On the present trip Mr and Mrs Wedgwood intend to visit Auckland, where Captain Hobson was buried in 1842. Mr Wedgwood is a director of Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent, England^ - the famous pottery firm. He has with him examples of pottery made by Josiah Wedgwood some years prior to 1769, when the firm commenceijßoperations.