PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 72, 18 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Fireman Boon, of the Stratford Fire Brigade, has been elected delegate to the meeting of the Taranaki Fire Brigade Association at New Plymouth on December 4th. Mr. Jackson, special _ assistant at Eltham, has been appointed by the Wanganui Education Board to be instructor in science and woodwork and assistant director in the northern district. Miss Ivy Butcher, who for some time past has been an inmate of the Stratford Hospital, suffering from' pneumonia, was well enough to leave tlie institution to-day. Mr. William McElrea, 8.E., headmaster of the Balciutha District High School since 1896, has been appointed by the Education Board to the position of headmaster of the Dunedin Normal School, vice Mr. E. Binder, promoted to the principalship of the Training College. Mr. Harry Brooks, New Plymouth, was in Stratford to-day making arrangements for the production of “The Geisha,” in the To.ui Hall, Stratford, on November 27th. “The Geisha' comes with a record of unqualified success, and should be very warmly received in Stratford.

Mrs. Stephen Nagetotto, a resident of Franklin, Philadelphia, has given birth to six children in little more ■ than thirteen months. The latest arrivals are throe boys. In September, 1911, the woman also bore triplets—two girls and a boy; and in 12 years she lias had fifteen children. Earl Granville, the Councillor of the British Embassy at Berlin, starts, it is said, with half a crown more than most people. When ho was a young man, witn the courtesy title of ■ Lord Leveson, he used to perform conjuring tricks with coins, and in cue of these ho swallowed half a crown by mistake. All efforts to dislodge it proved unavailing, and as he seemed none the worse for it the coin Was allowed to remain.

Mr. Eric Harrison, an Australian, in the employ of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, has been appointed aviation instructor to the Commonwealth Government. Mr. S. F. Cody, having declined the offer, made him by the Government. Mr. Harrison is the son of Mr. J. W. Harrison, of Castlemaine. Ho is 26 years of age, and unmarried. After learning the cycle and motor trade, he became interested in aviation, and last year left Melbourne for England with a view to qualifying as an aviation engineer and pilot; He was engaged at the works of the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Bristol. Subsequently he attended the aviation school on Salisbury Flam, gaining his pilot’s certificate in September, 1911. The salary attached to his position under the Commonwealth is £4OO a year, Mr. James Gardiner, a well-known and respected resident of New Plymouth, died suddenly on Saturday night, reports the ‘News.’ Mr. Gardiner had been about town during the day, and retired to bed at bis son’s residence, about 10.30 o’clock. Shortly afterwards he was seized with a fit of coughing, ‘ and never rallied, passing away at 11.15. The late Mr. Gardiner, who was 62 years of age, was born in Flemington, Victoria, and came to New Plymouth nineteen years ago, having been in business for practically the whole of that time. He is survived by his wife, and two children, Mr. Frank .Gardiner, of Hine Street, and Mrs. T. Brocklenurst, of Christchurch. Frederick Charles Bartholomew, the young man who was found dead on the yocks near Bondi, Sydney, with a-bul-led through his chest, was a native ot Ireland, and arrived in Dunedin about eighteen months ago. He had been here (says the ‘Otago Daily Times ) about three weeks when he obtained a position as assistant caretaker in the New Zealand Express Company s building. In September he received word from his parents that he would probably be able to improve his position if he proceeded to Sydney, where some friends of the family resided, and he left Dunedin on September 27th. Before finally leaving New Zealand he spent some time in Rotorua and in other parts of the North Island, The caretaker of the New Zealand Expres.. Company’s building states that he received a letter from Mr. Bartholomew about a week ago, and although he had found no work when he wrote, he was apparently in good health and spirits. i Dean Grogan, whose death was announced at Meanee, Hawke’s Bay, at the age of 69, was born near Dungangan, County Tyrone, Ireland, and was educated partly in France, and partly at St. Mary’s,"Dundalk, where he was ordained priest in 1879. The following year, on his arrival in New Zealand, he was appointed curate to the late Verv Rev. Father Forest, Napier. In 1884 Dean Grogan was appointed to the charge of the Hawera district, which then included the whole of tae coast from Wanganui to New Plymouth. He remained there for four years, and during that time he paid off £760 of debt, built two churches and a presbytery, enlarged the church at Hawera", and secured land in six different districts for future church purposes. In 1834 Dean Grogan succeeded Father Forest as parish priest at Napier. After nineteen years’ ministration in Napier, he visited America and Europe. On his return in 1903, he was appointed to the charge of the Wanganui parish, where lie erected a school at Aramoho, and a new church (St. Joseph’s) in the same parish. Last year he resigned his position at Wanganui owing to failing health, and removed to Meanee. He lias a brother residing in Whangarei. Dean Grogan was a very able preacher and a fine administrator.