PERSONAL.
Mr. W. F. Spooner, of Patea, has been appointed secretary o-f the Awatuna Dairy Company. There were 113 applicants for the position. At the Taranaki Education Board’s office yesterday a presentation was made to Mr. H. J. Thornton, who is relinquishing the secretaryship of the Taranaki Board, to take up a similar position with the Nelson Board. On behalf of the board’s staff Miss Thompson presented Mr. Thornton with a handsome inkstand, Mr. J. Valintine speaking on behalf of the inspectors. Opportunity was also taken to welcome Mr. H. W. Insull, who succeeds to the. secretaryship. A presentation of a handsome silver trowel was made to the chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board (Mr. M. Fraser) at Opunake yesterday, when he officiated at the laying of the foundation stone of the district's new cottage hospital. The trowel, which was suitably inscribed and accompanied by a casket, was presented to Mr. Fraser by Mr. M. J. Mcßeynolds, who, speaKing from an acquaintance o-f 29 years, expressed the opinion that the district would always get a fair deal from the board so long as Mr. Fraser was connected with it.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 4
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189PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 4
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