PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 261, 27 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

ilis i'.xci'llency the Governor has intimated his acceptance of the position of Patron of the Xavy League in New Zealand. Hie Rev. A. B. Brocklehurst. vicar of Hastings, and who was once stationed at AVaitara, is spending a holidav in New Plymouth. - • Mr. Gerald C. Branson arrived in town l yesterday to complete arrangements lor the "Follies'" performance in the. Theatre ltoyal on Friday, Mare! 28- . .Mr. James Mackenzie, Surveyor-Gen-eral, who at one time was Commissioner of Crown Lands for Taranaki district, . is on an official visit to New Plymouth. : At Inglewood on Tuesday evening' the Rev. and Mrs. Reader, who are being transferred to Huntly, were farewelled by their congregation and presented with souvenirs. Miss W. Jemison has resigned her position as assistant teacher at the Tariki Seliool. The resignation of Miss M. Moil - , sole teacher at Mangaehu, hss also been accepted. Mr. Billing, who is leaving Inglewood to assume charge of Messrs. Weston .aiid • Weston's legal office during Mr. Weston's visifc-to England, was the re-' cipient of a presentation from the local cricket and golf clubs on Saturday last. Miss .Jemison, assistant mistress at the Tariki School, was last .night presented with a handsome afternoon tea set in view of iier approaching marriage by the choir of the local Methodist Church, of which she had for many years acted as organist. Mr. W. T. Wilson, president, and Mr. M. J. Mack, general secretary, of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, will arrive in Xcw Plymouth on Saturday morning. Iu the evening th.-y will be tendered a complimentary smoke, concert by the local branch.

The death is announced at his residence, Forth street, Diiiicdin, of Mr. J. .A. liislop, of the legal'firm of Messrs. Hislop and Lang, in his sixty-fifth year. Mr. Hislop was the second son of the late Dr. Hislop, and a brother of tho Hon. T. W. Hislop, of Wellington. He was born at Kirk, Newton, Mid ( aider,, Scotland, in 1848. He arrived here with his parents in IS3G in the ship Strathmore.

Tl\e following temporary appointments , have been made by the Taranaki Eduea- • tion Board:—Miss I. Craig, assistant at Te Kiri; Miss M. Blyth and Miss J. Auld, - assistants at Tuna; -Miss K. Wilson head teacher at Marco; Miss E. Macgregor, assistant at, Tariki; Miss ■ M.. Tobin, sole teacher at Opua; Mr. K. Ellicott. .sole teacher at Waingon«'oro; Mm E. M. Clarke, assistant at Inglewood; Miss E. Knox, assistant at Midhirst.

Fifty-three applications were received' for the position, of secretary of 'the ' Southland Education Board yesterday. r A meeting of the' Board yesterday selected the following three applicants, who will be asked to meet the Board on _ Friday: —Messrs. A. Bell, M.A., score- * tary of the South Canterbury Board; George J. A. Parr, commercial master of the Chriatchureh Technical College; and X. 11. Chapman, 8.A., Registrar of the Otago University.—Press Association.

Master E. C. Coutts, the winner of the Alf Bayly Memorial Scholarship, was presented last Thursday 'by Mr. P. Skoglund, chairman of the Stratford District High School Committee, on -behalf of the Taranaki Rugby Union, with the memorial medal. In making the presentation, Mr. Skoglund stated that though this was the first time the scholarship had been won by a pupil of the Stratford school, yet on two previous occasions on which the scholarship had been competed for the school had had either the better scholar or the better athlete on this occasion the winner had been first in both departments. The medal not only indicated the winner's prowess in the athletic field or in the class-room, but carried with it memories of a man who was honored and respected by all who knew him--the late Mr. Alfred Bavlv.—Stratford Tost.