PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 4, 6 January 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

The many friends of the Townsends, of Lowgarth, will be sorry to hear of the deatji of Mr (Jordon Townsend, which took place at Lowgaftn this morning after a week’s illness, from pleurisy and pneumonia. Mr Townsend was 42 years of age.

Mr H, J. Thompson, 8.A., of Wendon, Southland, was the successful applicant for the position of second assistant at the Stratford School. A special meeting of the School Committee was hold last night to consider the three applications for the position submitted by the Education Board.

Mr Charles C. Reade, organiser of the Australasian Town Planning tour on behalf of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association of Great .Britain, accompanied by Mrs Reade, has returned to Sydney. During the past three mouths, ho has lectured throughout Victoria, South Australia, and West Australia, and recently completed the campaign in favour of town planning in Victoria by a special lecture delivered to the members of both Houses of the State Parliament. Mr llcade has returned to Sydney to make arrangements for a further series of lectures. Ho will return shortly to Melbourne to give evidence and provide information • before tho Royal Commission on Housing.

The late Professor J. G. Black, forinerely of the Otago University, was (says the Dunedin Evening Star) a teacher of eminence. “In his own way, sometimes abrupt, but always fitting the individual student, he got Ids young men to work, and ho earned their respect and affection. He gave them something of his own thoroughness. During his occupancy of the Chair of .Chemistry at the University of Otago—the position in which he made his fame —he turned out hundreds of scholars, and they are everywhere in the Dominion. He retired from this chair in March of 1912. Though Hot cultivating the social graces, Professor Black was really a very sociable man. ft was out of their liking for the man that the students made him practically the per. manent president of the University Football Cluh. Ho confessedly revelled in the honor, and attended not only (lie rlnh’s matches, but also their practices,”