PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 223, 8 February 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. T. Young has been re-elected unopposed as secretary of the Wellington Seamen's Union.

Mr. G. W. Bennett, Mayor of Inglewood, was on Wednesday presented by the councillors with a silver cradle, in honor of the birth of a son during his term of office.

Dr. Jas. Garfield Mitchell, of the Bunedin Hospital, has accepted the position of house surgeon of the Gisborne Hospital, and will take up his duties on Feb-' ruarv 15.

Mr. 0. West, who has been a member of Messrs. flatrick and Co.'s clerical staff at Waitara for the past two years, will leave by this morning's mail train for i WaTiganui, having been transferred to the Jirni'ri head office there. General Oodley is about lo visit Fngi liiml. His visit, he said last nigiu in Wellington, was purely to study ivilitary matters connected with the toordhiation of the Empire's defence. I'e denied emphatically a rumour that he is retiring from his present command. Major the Hon. R. H. Collins. General Staff' Officer at Palmerston North, ha? been appointed Adjutant-General of the Now Zealand Defence Forces, in succession to Lieut-Colonel G. C. B. Wolfe, who has been appointed inspector of rille clubs, drill balls and rifle ranges, with the temporary rank of colonel while so employed. It will be remembered that Colonel Wolfe succeeded Colonel Robin in the office of Adjutant-General, when the latter officer went to England.

Mr. John Neill, for the past twentyeight years secretary of the Southland Education Board, yesterday tendered his resignation. Mr. Neill has been for fortyone years connected with education in New Zealand, and prior to becoming secretary of the board was a member of the. teaching profession. The members of the Board made a » 7 ery complimentary reference to Mr. Neill's long and faithful service, and decided to grant him leave, of absence lo the end of the year as from April 1.