PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2233, 3 July 1908, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Air. T. Holden lias asked and consented to allow himself to be nominated as President of the A. and P. Association. The nominations will not, close until the meeting of the Society to he held at II o'clock tomorrow morning. Air. Holden has been President of the Association for the past six years. Air. A. Keefer has been appointed a member of the Te Rawbiti Land Board to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Colonel Porter. Yesterday afternoon, at the District High School, .Standard V. entertained the senior girls and teachers at afternoon tea. Afterwards three presentations were made to the cookery instructress, Aliss Lousley, who is leaving Gisborne. The girls of Stand irds V. and VI. presented her with a silver jewel case- and gold lace pin, and then Aliss Alona Parker, for the High School pupils, made a presentation of a silver manicure set, and in doing so made an excellent speech, in which she conveyed the good wishes of the school to Aliss Lousley. AH. F. J. Rowley, headmaster of the school, finally presentee] Aliss Lousley with an enamelled wrist-watch on behalf of the teachers. Ho expressed much regret at- her coming departure, hut wished her every happiness, and expressed tho hope that , she would return. Air. Leslie replied on behalf of Alias Lousley, and three hearty cheers were then given for her.

IF THE JAPANESE CAAIE ! Commenting upon the fact that the British Army in South Africa suffered eleven i fines more severely frmi disease than did the Japanese in Manchuria, Major Clark, R.A.M.C., in a lecture in .Sydney recently, sa.u: —“At this rate a Japanese army would defeat a British army of eqjil strength merely hr pitting" <;own in front of it and waiting for disease to do the rest.’ He was one of those, lie went on, who believed that a day would come when a Japanese army would be seen ill Australia, and. imagining for a moment an Australian force numerous enough t„ face the enemy with a fair chance of success, it was to he hoped the local troops would not melt away in this fashion. It was not sufficient answer t 0 say they were in their own country, and had. therefore, a better chance of health. A recent statement made by an eminent authority was to the effect that if England were invaded and the territorial army were called out to meet the invaders it would hare 2000 sick at the end Of the first twenty-four hours.”

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