PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 35, 4 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. E. W. Lewis leaves to-n ght fo Auckland.

Mr E. F. Hemingway’, editor and proprietor of the “Patca Press,” who has been on a short visit to Stratford, returned south by the mail this morning.

Mr. G. Hedditch, teller of the local branch of the Bank of Australasia, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. He leaves immediately for tho capital city. Mr G. 1). Hunter's resignation as secretary of the Stratford Racing Club was, at a meeting of the committee last night, accepted with re gret.

Lieutenant Purdy, who has been relieving Captain Cardale for some weeks, left Huwera for Palmerston North this morning. Captain Cardale returned on Tuesday from a trip to the South Island.

Tho member for Eden, Mr Bollard, has been 51 years a member of the same school committee, and for 45 years of that period has been chairman. He began that period when the school had j.O pupils. It has now more than 500.

Mr C. P. Lindegreen, organiser of the New Zealand Political Reform League, passed through Stratford this morning by the mail train. Ho returns to Stratford on Monday morning.

Mr E. Pinder, at present headmaster of the Norman School, -Dunedin, has been appointed principal of the Training College in succession to Professor White. There were nine applications from various parts of tlie Dominion, states a Dunedin P.A. message.

Mr Jenkinson, in the Legislative Council last night, mentioned that Thursday was tho anniversary cf the tranference of the seat of Government from Auckland to Wellington, and no thought it was noteworthy that Mr Bell should bo sitting where his father sat on that occasion. He congratulated Mr Bell, and Mr Boelian endorsed the remarks. Mr 8011, replying, remarked that his father had opposed tho transfer of tho seat of Government.

Mr Chris. M'Cartie, of Koluiratahi, lias just returned from a trip to Queensland and New South Wales. Mr M'Cartie speaks highly of the prosperity of Queensland and its future prospects a® a farming country; He states (says a.correspondent, of the Taranaki Herald) that in the cities, as well as in the backblocks, the cost of living is a great deal higher than New Zealand. The Public Works Department of New.. Zealand gives far more concessions to its employees than either of the two States visited.