PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 19 March 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Morris, A.M.1.C.E., has been appointed to the position of engineer to the Bailor County Council out of 3b applications.

Mr V. G. B. Sinclair was the successful applicant out of sixteen for the position of the Westport Harbor Board engineer and secretary combined.

Mr J. F. Watson, well-known in Stratford, where for many years ho was in business, is at present lying seriously ill, friends will be sorry to learn.

The death of Mrs Xaomi Warbnrton, mother of Mr J. K. Warbnrton, formerly Auditor-General, is announced from Wellington. Deceased, who was aged 89 years, arrived in Wellington in 1840 in the ship Martha Ridgwav.

Or. Chamtalonp will resign his position of district health officer in Dunedin, and will assume the duties of Professor ox Bacteriology and Public Health at the Otago University, states the Press Association.

The Hon. W. Eraser (Minister of Public Works) intends to visit the Wanganui district shortly to inquire into certain alleged transport difficulties in the hack country, inland from the iown.

Mr Cyril L. Wilson has resigned the position of accountant to the New Zealand Farmer’s Co-operative Distributing Company, to take up a similar position with Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., of Eltham. Dr. Hardwicke, formerly a master at the Wanganui Collegiate School, and who has been acting recently as locum tenens for Dr. Leahy at Napier, left by the Makura, en route to England, on Saturday. Mr James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the New York Herald, is dangerously ill on his yacht at Suez (states a Times-Syduey Sun cablegram). Mr Bennett is famous as the man who commissioned H. M. Stanley to find Livingstone, the famous xVfricau explorer.