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Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Air. u i;. uavy, who <ts the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., with headquarters at Sydney, is visiting Xew Plymouth. Mr. C. Bftnsom, general manager of the Northern Steamship Company, will pay a brief visit to New Plymouth on Thursday, on his way to Wellington. Messrs. J. B. Laurenson (Christ* church), a director of the New Zealand Iron Smelting Manufacturing Company, is on a visit to New Plymouth. Mr. N. P. Digby, late of Christchureh, has taken up an appointment as chief auctioneer for the Farmers' Co-opera-tive Organisation Co., of Hawera. The Rev. T. Farley, of New South Wales, and formerly stationed at New Plymouth, lias returned to New Zealand, and will probably settle in the Dominion. At Riverlea last Thursday, Private "Mick'' Malone was entertained at a social and presented by his friends with a wristlet watch with a radium dial. It transpires that Mr. Percy Lomax, >vho was the victim of a serious motorcar accident at Nelson, has not had his Jeg amputated as reported ,and it, is hoped it will be saved. A late message from Wellington announces the death in that city last night of Mrs. W. H. Keisberry, of Pungarehu. The deceased lady and her husband had been resident in the district for over 20 years. The cause of death was pneumonia, supervening on an attack of influenza. Mr, <T. Caughley, Assistant Director oi Education, ig at present visiting New Plymouth/ He is assisting the local in-' spectors of schools to inaugurate the Dominion classification or grading of teachers, j To-morrow ke completes his round of these visits at Wanganui, and the complete classification will be gazetted ia June. Three Bchool teachers, who left NewZealand about two years ago under the system of interchange of teachers arranged between the New Zealand education authorities'and those of Canada and the United Kingdom—Miss .C. Lindsay and Miss Caskey, both of Timaru, and Miss ,T. Swap, of Temuka—returned by the Rimutaka last week. Twelve manths of that period of absence was spent in schools at Brandon, Manitoba, after which the ladies went on to Engiland, and taught in schools in different parts of London for another year. The idea underlying the exchange was that of gaining experience of systems of teaching other than our own, and the insight acquired by the little party will be invaluable to themselves and to other New Zealand teachers who will profit by their example. As the corollary to their trip abiqad, three teachers from Canada came to New Zealand at the time of their departure and taught for twelve months in South Canterbury schools.