PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7918, 6 September 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr <iilljert, postmaster at .Waitara, is taking his annual month's leave iust now. Mr Johnston, of the New Plymouth o/Tice. is relieving him.

Dr. Mason, Chief Health Oflicer, is leaving for Australia by the Waikaro and has booked a passage from Sydney to Marseilles by the Jlaritimes steamer Dumljen.

Mr D. Ilanks, of the Magistrate's Court staff, Wellington, is at present relieving Mr A. Trimble, Clerk of the Court at Ilawera, whft' is indisposed.

Mr (,'eorge Fowlds, M.H.U., intends going Homo oarly next year.in order to take parr. injfamily celebrations in honour of his father's 100 th birthday in May.

Mr A. .1. Harding, master of the : Mahoe school, who ivas appointed assistant teacher at the Stratford District High School, was also selected by the Central School (Jomniittee, and has decided to accept the latter appointment. Air Drown, of (Jore, Otago, will liil the vacancy at Stratford, ami will take up his duties in-about a month's time. Mr J. Thomas, who hns been for sonic years a member of the staff of the Stratford District High School, but who now takes charge 'of the Omata school, was on Monday presented by his class with a greenstone pendant -awl by the teachers with four volumes of classic literature. He was* also presented by the football teams with a case of razors. (»enerul regret was expressed at Mr Thomas' departure from Stratford.

Mr W. I;. Gray, late engineer at the Waitara Ffec'iing Works, was the recipient of several prescnt-atipns aj. Waitara, as tokens of esteem on t-iie eve of his departure, Mr J. Cameron, on behalf of some 35 gentlemen who had assembled on Friday evening to bid him farewell, handed Mr Gray a pair of silver candlesticks as a memento of li-is Waitara sojourn. On Saturday evening the Freezing Works employees assembled at the Masonic Hotel-, and expressed their goodwill towards their old chief by presenting him with a handsome gold sovereign case, suitably inscribed. Mfs Gray also was presented' With ap appropriate -gift, On Monday ovenlng Mr Gray, who holds a captain's commission in the volunteers, was entertained by the Waitara Rifles.