PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 21, 23 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Councillor Ward is to be the recipient of a presentation at the special meeting of the Borough Council thus evening.

Miss M. Wilson, teacher at Mam Road school, was yesterday grantee leave of absence by the Board roi four months to date from March Ist, 1913 and Miss K. Wilson was appointed temporary head teacher during hei absence.

Master A. C. Aitken, pupil of the Otago Boys’ High School, who headed the list in the results of the recent University Junior and Senior Scholarship examinations, is a nephew of Mi s G. H. Boyles, of Brooxes Road, Stratford .

The funeral of the late Mr John Archer took place at the Midhusi cemetery yesterday, the service at the graveside being conducted by the Rev. 11 Metson, of the Stratford Primitive Methodist Church. The cortege was a representative one, including many friends from Stratford and Midhirst.

Constable Carmody, aged 35 years, in charge of the Carterton Police Station, died this morning. He leaves a wife and four children, the eldest being five years of age and the youngest four months. Death was due U the breaking of a blood-vessel on the lungs.—P.A. wire.

The following resignations have been accepted by the Taranaki Education Board: Miss Nora Rerr-Hislop pupil-teacher, Inglewood; Mr. H. E Fenton, sole teacher, Hulford; Miss C Arthur, assistant, Okato; Mr Wil fred Hughes, sole teacher, Waiongona ; Miss A. Lewis, sole teacher, Dudley; Miss T. Sutton, assistant, Hillsborough.

Mr George A. Smith, aged sixty-nine years died suddenly at Picton on Sataurday night. He was playing bowls till late in the evening, when he had tea and went for a stroll. A! ten o’clock a member of his family found him lying on a couch, dead. The deceased arrived in Picton from Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1862, and Inult up a very large business as a builder and contractor. He leaves a large family of eight sons and six daughters. —P.A. wire.

The appointment of Mr U. F. Mac cabe as A ice-Oonsul of Russia at A\ cllington,' with jurisdiction over the pro vincial district of Wellington and Ra and Mr J. Paterson as A ice Consul of Russia at Auckland, wit! jurisdiction over the provincial districts of Auckland, Taranaki, anc Hawke’s Bay, has been recognised In the Government. Mr J. H. Enrignt. as Vice-Consul of Norway at A\estport, is provisionally recognised.

Mrs Pulsford, the wife of ex-Senatoi Pulsford, died on Friday afternoon a* Neutral Bay (states the Sydney Daily Telegraph).' The deceased lady hat been”an invalid and a cripple for many x ears—3s in fact. Before she anc her husband left England m 1883 sin had already suffered for years from rheumatic gout, which trouble contmu ed to make headway in Sydney, unto the whole of her joints were locked It is now over twenty years since s.n was able either to walk or stand. Sin endured bronchitis and asthma for years, arid lost her sight about seven years ago.

In St. Mary’s Church, New Plymouth, yesterday afternoon Mr Ernest Percival (Terry) Fenton, of Mas terton, was married to Miss Joyce D. Fit/,Herbert, eldest daughter o : Mrs H. S. Fitzherbert, of New Plymouth. The News reports that the bride, who was given away by Mr AY. S. Fitzherbert, of Palmerston North was attended by the following brides maids: Misses Laurie and Sybil I itz Herbert, Miss Keitha Saxton, and her four nieces: Dulcie, Marjory, Betty and Patricia. ■ Mr Bert Whitcombt was best man, and the groomsmen were Messrs Austin Bewley and Gideon Pott. The Rev. H. A. Colville was the officiating clergyman, anti Mr Weller presided at the organ.

The -names of the folloAving Stratford pupils appear among the success ful candidates in the Junior Civil Ser Aice examination, the first three pas sing with credit: LaAvrence Caning ton Mail, appears third on the list John Holmes Crighton, is under 27 1 ■ Winifred Edith Georgina Knight, 3i U; Wallace Fletcher Tomlinson, 395. Mary Jane Dempster, 489; John Manning Bates, 554; Mark Campbell Aukl, 625; Jack Olson Morton, 735; Katu Luisa Taylor, 864; Decimus Arthui Reginald Claudius \ernon Belchei. 1093;, Eva Maud Heaven, 1151; Gertrude Barbara Riera, 1181; Doris Ella Robinson, 1187 ; Jessie Merron, 1200 : Elsie Mavis Parrott, 1249.