PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2998, 22 September 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Corporal A. S Judd has been appointed secretary to the Carterton Rifle Volunteer Company. Constable Frank Mitchell has been appointed clerk in the Supreme, District and Magistrate's Courts at Palmerston North. The Rev. L. Thompson, of the Carterton Presbyterian Church, has been ordered by his medical attendant to take two months' rest. Mr Thompsnn will leave for Rotorua shortly. Miss M. Osborne, who has for some considerable time been a teacher at the Presbyterian Sunday School, Carterton, and who is leaving the district shortly, was, on Sunday last, presented with a silver brush and comb by the teachers and scholars of the school. Mr E. J. Chew, formerly manager of the Nireaha Co-operative Company's cheese factory lias been appointed manager of the InterWanganui Co-operative Dairy Company. At a farewell social tendered by the residents of Nireaha Mr Chew wan presented with a purse of sovereigns. Mr Alfred Banks, who was in business as a pork butcher in Willis street, Wellington, for some yeas, died at his residence in Broadway street, Palmerston North, yesterday, agei 57. T he deceased was a native of Huntingdon, England, and arrived in New Zealand about fourteen years ago. After leaving Wellington he settled at Palmerston North, where he entered into thebutchering business Mr Banks took a great interest in racing, and was the owner of two or three well-known horses. He has left a widow and three (Mrs W. C. Hampton), Wellington; Mrs E. Hampton, Palmerston North; and Mrs Gaiidin, jun. Wellington).