PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 77, 7 March 1916, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr W. H. Foreman, of Okau. has resigned his position as a Justice of the Peace. The Rev. A. Gordon Kirgfin. who for some time past has been in charge of the Presbyterian district at Kaponga, has taken charge at Normanby. At last night's meeting of the Oddfellows' Lodge, Past Grand Bro. \\i. T. Webb signed an enrolment card for service with the 15th Reinforcements. Mr J. Anstey, M.P., who recently underwent a severe operation, was able on Tuesday to leave for his home, but it will be some weeks before he is able to get about. The death is announced of Mr Patrick Gleeson, a well-known citizen of Auckland, who died suddenly at his residence at Parnell on Saturday night. The cause of death was heart disease.

Miss Ida Woodruffe, assistant teacher in the Okaiawa public school, has been officially advised that she has passed in the B.A. degree subjects of Latin and mental science for the teacher's B certificate. Archbishop Cerretti, who has returned to Sydney from New Zealand, says he was struck by the amity and goodfellowship among all sections oi the community, and was particularly impressed with the prosperous trade conditions. The internment of the late Timothy John McCarthy, of Rawhitiroa. whose painfully sudden death from infantile paralysis is recorded elsewhere, will take place at Elthanl Cemetery, tomorrow afternoon, Stratford friends are asked to note. The Wellington Police has nominated Superintendent J. o'Donovan as a candidate for election to the Public Service Superannuation Board, in place of Superintendent ,J. W. Ellison, who retires from the service at the end of this month. Superintendent Ellison has filled the position since 1901.

Lieutenant Gray, of "the local Defence Office, has resumed duty after an interval at Camp, and he hopes to pick up arrears of work and attend to all requests punctually as usual. Lieutenant (Jray is not in the best of health, having suffered an attack of gastritis while in camp. and, indeed, is even yet under the doctor's care. Mr T. Lonergan, who left for Wellington yesterday, was. on Sunday evening after Tempers, presented with a pocket book by the cl'o;r. The Kev. Father Maples, who male tin- pie••entatinr. refe. W to Mr Lonergan's rnanv good qualities and said he hid alwavs greatly assisted the choir. Father Maplcn wish-':! the n-copent luck in his new sphere of life. Mr Lonergan suitably responded.