PERSONAL.
Lieutenant Gray left for Wellington by the mail train this morning. Word was received in Hawera yesterday morning that Mr T. H. Hill’s only son had died in Auckland. Mr J. W. Davis, formerly of the New Zealand Survey Department, has received the appointment of chief draughtsman to the Survey Department of Samoa. Mr W./fl. Bird, M.A., for man? years inspector of Native schools, has been appointed chief inspector of, schools f(&feawke’s Bay, vice Mr Hill, who has paired on superannuation. At. Stw. Joseph’s Church, Hawera, on M. B. Cleary, of the Hawera railway staff, was married by the Very, -Rev. Dean Power to Miss Nellie Taugney, also of Hawera. ’ The Rev., J. A. Kempthome and Mrs Kempthoriie, who was leaving Inglewood for. SJaumarnnui, were entertained by the'residents of Inglewood and were presented with a clock mounted in a handsoxne oak frame. The following obtained partial passes in the recent matriculation examination:—New Plymouth Centre: K. R. Brokenshire, Claudine A. Dampney, H. B. Gigson, Janet T. Graham, D. G. D. Mackie, Ida Miles, Edna R. White. Stratford Centre: Helen B. Nutting. An unusual and painful accident happened this week to Mrs Purser, of Wanganui, mother of Messrs Purser Bros., of Hawera. She is 70 years of age, and when about to sit down on a chair she missed it and fell so heavily to tlie floor that her leg was broken above the knee. The Governor and the Countess of Liverpool leave Wellington to-day for Ruauui where they will be the guests of Mr and Mrs Joseph Studholme. On February 3 their Excellencies will leave Ruanui for Auckland, leaving next evening on the Tutanekai from Onehunga to visit certain coast towns north of Auckland, also Tauranga.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 46, 29 January 1916, Page 5
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286PERSONAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 46, 29 January 1916, Page 5
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