PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At a meeting of the Taranaki Education .Board yesterday the resignation was received of Mr. Maurice J. Smith, who has been assistant at the Eltham School for the past three years, but is now leaving to enter the training college at Wellington. Mr. D. IT. Thompson, who has been appointed tq succeed Mr. J. Paton as manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company’s New Plymouth branch, has arrived, in New Plymouth. Mr. Thomson haa been in charge of the Oamaru office of the company for several years, and while there took a keen interest in the town’s doings. He has been identified with music in Oamaru, and in sports was a prominent bowler, being president of the Phoenix Bowling Club, the principal club in the district.

An interesting visitor to Taranaki just now, is Mr. E. C. Moon, postmaster of Te Uku near Raglan. Mr. Moon is on his annual leave, and although a cripple, manages to get around very nicelv in a ehair with the aid of an assistant. Mr. Moon is crippled in the hands, and does all his writing work with his left foot. In fact for twenty seven years he has been in charge of the Te Uku post-office, and has been able to do all official writing by this method.

Mr. G. T. Murray, who for some years has occupied the position of district engineer to the Public Works Department for the Auckland district, and formerly of Taranaki, has been promoted to the position of inspecting engineer, and he has left to take up his new duties in Wellington He has been succeeded by Mr. A. J. Baker, lately district engineer in Dunedin, and formerly resident engineer at Taumarunui. On Wednesday afternoon the Auckland staff of the department met to bid farewell to Mr. Murray, and on their behalf Mr. W. J. T. Wiggs, chief clerk, presented him wifh several mementos, to remind him of his connection with the Auckland office.