PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 52, 23 August 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. E. Wilson (president) will represent the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society at the annual conference held in Wellington this week. ; Mr. J. A. Grimwood, chief clerk, and lately acting-manager in the Auckland office of the Union Steam fthip Comparty, has been promoted to the head office, Dunedin. Mr. Grimwood takes ii|> an appointment in the Canadian-Aus-tralian and Islands department of the Union Company. ilr. M. Kndd, lute branch manager at New Plymouth, litis the vacancy in the Auckland office. Mr. H. J. Lowe, who is to succeed Mr. W. H. Skinner as Chief Draughtsman at the Survey Office, will not arrive in New Plymouth until about the 3rd of next month. Mr. Lowe comes from -.the Wellington office, to which ha has been attached practically throughout his entire service. Latterly, for the past three or four years, he has been engaged in trigonometrical work in the Kinc Country.

At the Education Board meeting last night the following resolution was carried, on the motion of Messrs. Trimble and Adlam, the members standing: "That this Board tender its deepest .sympathy with Mrs. Tisch in the very great loss she has sustained in the death of her esteemed husband, and that it desires to place on record its appreciation of his services to the cause of education while a member of this board and regret that New Plymouth ha»«lost its most prominent citizen in all that concerned its social and material advancement, and that a copy of this resolution tie forwarded to Mrs. Tisch."

Sergeant Conn, of Dunedin, who was head constable at Rarotonga, returned by the Maitai to Wellington on Thursday. He had been seriously ili, ami is practically invalided. The Sergeant spoke well of the Rarotongans to a Post reporter. "They are a lovable people," he said, "and I speak as a police officer. They are honest and light-hearted. Their only trouble is their fondness for hush beer. It is illegal to make and drink it, T understand; but they get away into the hush, especially on Sundays and holidays. There the beer is made by crushing oranges. The juice is strained and fermented. They get imprisoned foi twenty-one days or more if caught. Does it make them fight? My word, it does. But only among themselves, mind yon. They are the happiest convicts going. They have hearts as light as air. and do not mind-a bit working on the roads or pottering about at convict labor."