PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 79, 20 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. .Carvel Evetts, of the West End school teaching staff, lias taken up the headmastership of the Oaonui school. A London cablegram states that General Booth's nervous symptoms are riither more marked. Prayers for his recovery were offered at every Salvation Army service on Sunday. At a meeting of the Board of Management 'of the Wanganui Y.M.C.A. last j night ,Mr. Will Clark, .at present secretory of the Pertli Y.M.C.A., was appointed secretary, on,the recommendation of Mr. Jameson, National secretary. Mr.-P. J. Heatley, late organising technical secretary to the Taranaki Education Board, who leaves for Napier today, en route to Newcastle, Australia, was made the recipient of a presentation on Saturday evening from the directors and instructors of the New Plymouth Technical College. Mr. Heatley was also presented with an engraved autograph letter from the teachers of the various classes at the college. Opportunity was also taken to present .him with a cigarette case, the gift of the girls and boys attending the college day classes. Mr. Ballantyne, chief inspector to the Board, made the presentations, and referred in generous terms to the work done Iby Mr. Heatley during the past two years. Mr. Heatley has also been presented with mementoes of esteem from various local societies in the town.

Mr. W. McKenzie, popularly known as "Off-side Mac," leaves New Zealand at the end of the month for Sydney, where lie has received an appointment on the stall' of the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Mr. McKenzie has had an extensive newspaper experience in New Zealand, having been first/employed on Wairarapa papers, then on the New Zealand Times, and for the last five years on the commercial staff of the Dominion, he having joined the staff of that paper a few weeks before its publication. For the last three years Mr. McKenzie lias 'been the travelling, representative of that paper, and has for some time resided at Palmerston North. Being of fine physique, Mr. McKenzie was for several years well known on the football field and as a representative player of no mean repute. He is, also, well known as a writer of football notes. Mr. McKenzie decided to relinquish his position on the Dominion ami to take up his residence in Sydney in consequence of the delicate state of Mrs. McKeuzie's health, it being considered the change would be .beneficial.