PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 94, 25 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Tho Rev. R. Boler died in a private hospital in Auckland after an operation, states a Press Association wire.

Mr Charles Gollop, of the Public Works Department, Greymouth, has been transferred to Stratford, in place of Mr Drury, lately storekeeper at Stratford, w"ho was recently transferred to the Otira tunnel works.

Mr W. Hathaway (chairman) and Mr C. H. Penn (clerk), who represented the Stratford County Council at the recent Counties' Conference, returned to Stratford on Saturday evening. The chairmen of the Taranaki, Eltham, and Egmont County Councils returned from the Conference by the same train.

Archbishop O'Shea's first confirmation service outside the city of Wellington since his consecration to the high office will lie held in Stratford at the Church of the Immaculate Conception after the eleven o'clock mass on September 14th. At the request of Father Maples, . Archbishop O'Shea. agreed to make his first provincial visit one to Taranaki and to the Stratford parish. The. Archbishop will probablv make his stay in Stratford ex-

tend over a few days. It may be mentioned that he is practically a Hawera. boy, having arrived there very young and been brought up in Hawera. The coming visit is sure to be full of interest to the members of the commun-