PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 27 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The resignation of Miss M. W. Stephens, head mistress of the Rahotu school, was accented at yesterday's meeting of tho Board of Education. •The death occurred at Manaia yesterday ot' Mr. Willia™ Hall, who wis one of the first, if not actually the first, business nmn in 'Manaia, having conducted a general storekeeping business for imany years-. _ Mr. Hall leaves a widow, but no family. The following have been appointed to act as commissioners at schools which failed to elect committees: Messrs P. Drake and G. W. Rogers (Okohe), W. llodge (Kohu-rar.ahi), J. ,B. Norris (Mangaehu), ,T. b'fcockley (Mohakau), 0. Watchorji (Puniwhaka). Mr. Vernon, principal of the Palmerston North High l School, is on a visit to New Plymouth, and this evening Mr. Heat-on, principal of the Ns'pier Hiiii School, will arrive here. Both visits are in connection (with the annual triangular gathering of the l'almerston 'North, Napier, and Xe\v Plymouth lligil Schools.

A London cal>l<!graiw this : attorning stated that Colonel Davics, a K«w Zealander, lhas been gazetted a •brigade-oommander in the British Aniiy. Oolond, now Brigadier-Genera!, Davits, was for aiumy years a resident of Inglewaod, and gained much notice hi the South African war, where he commanded .i colonial column. The death of Mr. Itebd't Noble Adams at. Hamilton, Auckland, has removed a figure who at one 'time was very prominent in total abstinence circles :in Dunedin. Mr. Adams was for a f*ood many years in the employment of the Otiipo Daily Times Company as pwblishc* of the Times anil) Witness. In recent yea-rti 'he was engaged «« a home «itasiomiry in the North Island.