PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8990, 27 November 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

I -0 Miss Cooper, who has been in charge of the infants' class at the Scarborough school during „the past five years, will leave shortly to take up a position in the Clyde Quay School, Wellington. Mr Arthur Halligan, eldest son of Mr John Halligan, of the Club Hotel. Dannevirke, has accepted a position as elpctrical engineer on the steamer Morayshire l , which will leave Wellington for England on Saturday next. The settlers of Pongaroa have presented Miss Sinclair, who has been postmistress at Pongaroa for the past seven years, and who has been transferred to the Upper Symonds street office, Auckland, with a purse of sovereigns and an illuminated address. At Pleckville, last Miss Hilda May Petersen, daughter of Mr Petersen, of Pleckville, was married to Mr J. Doig, of Eketahuna. Mr McDonald, of rEketahuna, has .been appointed assistant at the Nireaha Dairy Company's factory at Nireaha. The death occurred at Maharahara, on Monday morning last, of Mrs R. Meacheam, an old settler of the Bush district. Mr Arthur Brightwell, son of Mr T. Brightwell, of Woodville, has been engaged by the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company, to go to England and shear at the International Exhibition to be held there early next year. Mr F. Murray, who is leaving Woodville shortly, has resigned his position as a member of the Woodville Borough Council. The Rev. W. J. Elliott, of Carterton, is attending the Methodist Synol, which is being held at Napier. There is no improvement in the condition of Mr YVaite, an old resident of Morison's Bush, who has been seriouslv iil for some time.