PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 August 1936, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A cable from London r&jforts the death yesterday of Sir Henry Lytton, the famous Gilbert and Sullivan actor. Messrs. G. A. Hansen and W. Henson have been reflected .directors of the Kaiparoro Dairy Company. At the annual meeting of the Hamua Dairy Company, Messrs A. E. Brown and P. Davies were re-elected directors. •A Sydney cable message advises that Archbishop Kelly yesterday completed his silver jubilee as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, and received many congratulatory messages, including one from the Pope.

The engagement is announced of Nellie Jane, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Gregory, “Greenfields, 55 Pallia tua, to William Milford, second son of Mr and Mrs LukfJ|tory, Te.muka, South Canterbury.

There was a large attendance of district settlers and town residents at, the funeral on Saturday afternoon of the late Mrs R. S. Cooper. ‘ The many beautiful wreaths that were in evidence bore witness to the high esteem in which she was held. The services at the house and at the conducted by the Rev. G. F. StOckwell. The pall-bearers* were Messrs E. Tooby, A. Morris, J. MeLauchlan, G. Remnant, G. Garrett and F. Cairns. At the Wairarapa P. and A. Society’s meeting on Saturday, the president, Mr C. J. Nix, said that it was with deep regret that lie had to move a vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr W. Fisher. Mr Fisher had always been a very active member of the society and was at one time a vice-president. It was decided to send a letter of sympathy to Mr J. G. McDonald in the loss of his daughter. A letter is to be sent to Mr W. McKenzie, of Pigeon Bush, who is ill in the Auckland hospital, wishing him a speedy recovery to health.

Formerly of Massey Collegers well as Auckland University ColfPfe and Canterbury Agricultural College, Mr Kenneth Maclaurin Rudall has been awarded the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Leeds, where he has been engaged for the past two years in research in wool biology. He has also won the Ackroyd Memorial Fellowship at Leeds. Dr. Rudall graduated from Auckland University College in 1931, taking the degree of master of science with first-class honours in zoology. He then went to Massey College on a Sir James Gunson research scholarship in agriculture and a national research scholarship from the Department of Industrial and Scientific Research. For two years he worked on research in wool biology and subsequently continued that work at Canter-, bury Agricultural College. In 1934 Dr. Rudall was awarded a fellowship by the Cloth Makers 5 Guild of Leeds, tenable for two years at the University of Leeds.

At St. John’s Church, LatimeoSquare, Christchurch, on Wednesday lAt, the marriage was Pavitt (New Plymouth) tel Mrs Rugby M. Stubbs, of Palmerston North. The Rev. J. T. McWilliam performed the ceremony. Mr C. Davies was the organist. The bride and bridegroom are direct descendants of the early pioneers of Canterbury. The bride’s grandfather, Mr S. C. Farr, and the bridegroom’s father, Mr Edward Pavitt, arrived in Akaroa in April, 1850, in the barque Monarch, which arrived before the First Four Ships. The bride, who was given away by her father, Mr E.C. Farr, wore an ensemble of wine wool georgette and a hat to tone. She carried a bouquet of sweet peas, fuchsias, carnations and pink abutilons. She was attended by her cousin, Miss Macbean Stewart, who wore a black and white frock, finished with a shoulder spray of white velvet flowers. Her black hat was relieved with white, and she carried a bouquet of abutilons, freesias and sweet peas. The bridegroom was attended by his cousin, Mr N. W. Pavitt.