PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 24 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B. Hine, M.P., left for Wei

lington this morning in order to be present at the opening of Parliament

to-morrow

Dr J. S. Purely, formerly district Health Officer at Auckland, and more recently Chief Health Officer for Tasmania, has been appointed Medical Officer of Health to the metropolitan combined sanitary districts (24) in Sydney, and Chief Health Officer for Sydney.

Miss McKeon, lately witli Messrs Morey and Son, received a further presentation in Sunday afternoon, when Mr R. H. Bright, on behalf of her fellow boarders at the Club Hotel, presented Miss McKeon with a smer kettle and spirit stand.

Mr Alex Tosh, who has for the past few seasons been on the Kaponga factory staff, has decided to go on the land, and recently took over the property of Mr S. Long, of Mahoe. Mr Tosh is at present engaged installing a milking plant on his new property.

The following are the successful candidates, named in order of merit, at the recent State midwifery examinations :—Catherine E. Jackson, Isabel Milne Esther, A. Mitchell, Janet A. Moore, Rosaline T. Gresham, Mar' garet J. Miller, Elizabeth V. R. Knott, Jessie Jack, Rowena A. Lambert, Edith Auhrey, Jessie Froude, Alice E. Stephenson, Ellen A. Carter, Frederiki Blackett, Maragret Gomm, Jean M. R. Gilmer, Gertrude E. Morgan Hannah Jones, Charlotte E. Cowles Ada G. Hawken, Ellen Brown, Hepzibah Kennedy, Angelina Cunningham, Susanah E. M. King, Elizabeth Flem ing, Lilian Silvester, Llama M. Curlett, Alice M. Mcintosh, Blanche Lyons, Ethel Jakeman, Vera A. T. Far* quhar.

Mr Sidney Clark, who for some seven years was manager for Mr John Leydon and subsequently joined Mr Garrett Wilson, when the latter bought out Mr Leydon, has decided to enter business on his own account in partnership with Mr S. McMillan, who has for some four years been associated with Mr Clark in the manufacturing department. The new firm will start at Te Awamutu, in, the Waikato, at the beginning of next month. Mr Clark has made many friends in Stratford outside his business connection, being an ardent supporter of Association football—and, in fact the founder of the sport here—and also taking the most lively interest in Friendly Society work, School Committee and similar public matters.

T,he Hartley millions—the fortune of four millions and a half which lies in; Chancery awaiting a claimant—have been much under public notice of late, and a good number " of" "New Zealanders have been found who are held to be entitled to a share of the fortune. The latest of such parties to come under notice is Mrs Cuff. wife of Mr Cuff, of Messrs Cuff and Walsh, butchers, Stratford. Mrs Cuff was a Miss Hartley prior to her marriage. Others who are statedto.be directly interested in this colossal legacy, of approximately £4,500,000, are John Charles and George Hartley, of Rangitikei; H. Hartley, of Himitangi; Mrs J. Curtz, of Orari; Mrs H. Kibblewhite, of Rotorua; Mrs A. Parker, of Hamilton and the children of the late Mrs H. West, of Otakeho.

WORLD-WIDE RESEARCH,

TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS

London, June 23

The Government has appointed a committee of leading medical men under the presidency of Lord Moulton to carry out world-wide research on the best treatment for tuberculosis, and to provide data on insurance and sanatoria.

Many friendly societies complain of the serious depletion of their funds by trivial sickness claims. The grandmaster of the ManchesterUnity declares that the administration of the insurance benefits is a menace both to the national fund and to the friendlv societies' funds.

A line from a Southland household—"We have all had colds, and cough cine has been in erreat demand. I decided to give Tonking's Linseed Emulsion a trial. After one bottle it was no longer a trial, but a standing order for all of us. Trusting that 4 he cure will be as beneficial to others." Tonking's Linseed Emulsion, at chemists and stores. Is 6d, 2s 6d. -i 3 6d. x THE BRIGHTEST HOPE FUR THE