PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 71, 14 March 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr McDonald, engineer to Gisborne Harbor Board, has been appointed engineer to the Patea Harbor Board.

Mr Henry St. George has been appointed examiner for Trinity College lor 1914 in the .\e\v Zealand examinations, states a London cablegram. Ihe following teachers in the Whan•gamomona district were successful in tue recent teachers’ examinations:— Passed for Class T); William C. Bichcno, Stanley M. Mills; partial pass for v, utss 1), Irene M’Meekau,

Ihe Hon. W. If, Homes, Minister for Railways, has wired to the Town Clerk of New Plymouth that he will arrive there, on Wednesday evening next from Parihaka, and stay at the M bite Hart Hotel. Next morning lie nil! leave by mail train for Wellington.

The Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister for Railways, is to visit Taranaki next week, and will return to Wellington by Thursday morning’s mail train. As he passes through Stratford the railway matters of the district will he put before him by a deputation consisting of delegates from the local bodies in the district* A Feilding Press Association telegram this morning states; Mr Justo, a wealthy agriculturalist from Buenos Ayres, yesterday visited the High School hoys’ agricultural camp at Almadale, near Feilding. He gave an address to the boys, and after investigating the work they were doing, said he had at Washington visited the Agricultural College of America, but be said the work being done at Almadale was much more thorough and valuable .than that at the American College. Air J. Munro, manager of the Stratford branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of transfer to Hastings. He has been in charge of the Stratford brancu for four years and a half, and has made himself very popular during his residence in the town. He lias been in the service of the Bank practically all his life, has been in Taranaki for the past twenty years, and holds a record among bank managers in Taranaki, having managed a Taranaki hank for fifteen years. Mr Leversedge, of the Whangarei branch, succeeds Mr Munro. The death is announced from Washington of Mr George Westinghouse, the great engineer, / inventor, and manufacturer. The late Mr Westinghouse was born in 1846, and in 18645 was an assistant engineer in the United States Navy. His first’notable invention was a device in 1865 for replacing derailed cars, and in 1868 ho patented his invention of the air brake, known everywhere as the AA'estinghouse brake. He it was who first

applied pneumatic devices to switching and signalling, greatly increasing efficiency. He also utilised electricity in this connection, and thus became interested in the development of electrical machinery, and he introduced and developed in America alternatingcurrent machinery. He backed Tesla financially and otherwise in developing the induction motor, making possible the utilisation of alternating current for power purposes. He built the first ten great dynamos at Niagara, and for the Metropolitan Railway in London.