PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 293, 14 May 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

• Mr. Massey leavesi Gisborne for the south to-morrow.

Mrs. Firth is acting as temporary assistant at the Central school until Mr. Sullivan's successor arrives. Mr. G, F. Bertrand, of the staff of the West End school, has been appointed third assistant at the Central school.

Mr. R. Langinan, of Westown, who has been on a visit to Sydney, returned to New Plymouth on Tuesday morning. An engagement recently announced is that of Miss M. Rhodes, onlv daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. G. Rhodes, of Te KoraJia, Christchurcli, to captain Hutton, Welsh Fusiliers, A.D.C. to His Excellency the Governor. His Grace Archbishop Redwood leaves for Sydney en route to Rome on Friday by the Ulimaroa. At Sydney he will connect with the P. and 0. liner Maloja, leaving there on May 30, which will give His Grace an eleven days' stay in Sydney. Ife intends to return by way of Canada.

Mr. II 1). Groeott, second clerk in the General Post Office, leaves for Dunedin in four weeks' time, he having been appointed assistant-postmaster in that eity, vice Mr. F. S, Stokes, retired on superannuation. Mr. Groeott joined the Postal Service in Dunedin in' 1881, and was transferred to Oamaru in ISB7. I" 1803 lie came to Wellington. For four years he Was on the private secretarial stall' to Cabinet Ministers.

_Mr. J. A. Nasjh (Mayor of Palmers ton North), who announced on Saturday that lie will be a candidate for the Palmerston seat at the forthcoming general election and will stand in the Government's interest, state? that lie is contesting the seat at the request of deputations and of electors individually, fttys the Kvening Post's Palmerston North correspondent. Mr. D. Buielc emphatically states that he will take the platform against allcomers, and has not the slightest intention of standing down for the next twenty years.