PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Marion Prentice, of Kimbolton, has been appointed first assistant *t the Mangatoki school, and will take up her duties to-day.

The Hon. W C. Carncross, M.L.C., and Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., were wwsengers for Wellington by yesterday's express from Hawera. '

The Eltham Presbyterian pariah is signing a call to the Rev. E. Tulliford who is at present supplying the parish! Miss Stella Hickey lias been appointed head teacher of the Opunake school This appointment (says the Times) is unique in the fact that Miss Hickey started her A.B.C. lessons in the school that she is now going to command.

Mr. George Lamb, who has occupied the position of shipping clerk in Dunedin to Messrs. Bntterworth Bros., for the last 14 years, has been appointed secretary of the South Island Dairy Assertion, vice Mr. J. B. Scott, who has had to resign the position owing to severe illness. There were over 40 application* v for the vacant secretaryship. On Saturday, the New Plymouth carriers entertained Sapper R. J. Kibby, 13th Engineers, who is in New Plymouth on final leave and Mr. Young (local manager of the New Zealand Express Company), on behalf of the carriers, presented Sapper Kibby with a pair of military hair brushes, a pipe and tobacco pouch,

Mr. C. H. Drew leaves this morninj en route to England to join the aerial branch of the Army. He is accompanied by Ms wife. By force of character and ability ho built up one of the most successful businesses in the town which he did not hesitate to dispose of in order to do his "bit" for his King and country. He takes with him the cordial good wishes of the community for his success in his new sphere and his safe return to New Zealand.

Mr. Jack, Mayor of Whangarei, was a visitor to Hawera yesterday. He called upon the Mayor (Mr. E. Dixon) who, who showed him over the borough. Mr. Jack was much impressed with the solidity of the town and the great progress it had made during the past fifteen years, when he was last in Hawera. He expressed his delight at the cleanliness of the streets, and was particularly interested in the asphalting of the footpaths, and the conoreting of'the kerbing and channelling, and was surprised to hear that within a short while the whole of the footpaths in the borough will be aphalted. Mr. Jack was taken over King Edward Park, and said it Was one of the finest grounds he had seen in a small borough, and remarked that it was very creditable to those who were responsible for the care oT it. Such a Park was, he said, a valuable asses to the borough. Mr, Jack also went up the water tower, which, he remarked, was an asset to the town, if only for the fine view of the Plains to be obtained from it. He expressed his surprise at the smallness of the borough's area, and was surprised to know that the railway station and public school were out of the borough. Ho suggested that before long the town would have to consider the question of a "greater Hawera." Mr. Jack left for Inglewood by the afternoon train,—Star.