PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3026, 24 October 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

• Mr E. P. Webster, of New Plymouth, has been appointed Secretary ot the Taranald Jockey Club. Miss Broadbent, of the staff of the Carterton School, has been granted a month's leave of absence. Her .place will be taken by Miss Farmer. Captain P. Reade, who was highly complimented on the skill and judg.ment he displayed in handling the Hawea when she broke down, has resigned from the Union Company after 11 years' excellent service, and leaves immediately for the Old Country. Constable Thos. Johnson, who has been stationed at Masterton for some months past, and who enjoyed considerable popularity during that period, besides showing himself to be a v«»ry capable officer, leaves for Napier to-day, to where he has been transferred. The death is announced from New Plymouth of Mr W. K. Hulke, a very old settlor. Ee may be regarded as the father if the dairying industry, states a Press Association telegram. The deceased was 89 of age, and landed -iji Wellington in 1840. He introducetlthe first' milk cows in 1842, and erected the first flour mills in Wanganui and New Plymouth. Miss A. Brown, 8.A., daughter of Mr R. Brown, of Masterton, has been appointed assistant-teacher to the Wanganui Girls' College. There were 25 applicants for the position, which had to be created, owing to 'the rapid advance made by the College lately. The applicants were a particularly fine class, and comprised the best lot of teachers yet before the Board of Governors. • Miss Kohn, who has held the position of matron of the Nurses' Home at Wellington Hospital for some time past,'has resigned. The resignation was accepted by the Hospital Trustees, the Hon. C. M. Luke expressing regret at losing the services of Miss Kohn. He said she had done splendid work in the past, and she was leaving simply for private reasons. There are four candidates in the field for the moderatorship of the Presbyterian General Assembly for 1909, viz., Rev. I. Jolly, of Palmerston North, nominated by Wellington, Wanganui and Havvke's Bay, Rev. J. H. M'Kenzie, of Napier, by Mataura and Ghristchurch-; Rev. G. B. Inglis, of Ashburton, by Clutha; and Rev. W. M'Ara, of Kaikoura, by Nelson. '■■'•■ A telegram from Auckland states that the death occurred on Thursday of Captain Walter Spencer Stanhope, late of the 19th Hussars, son of. Sir Walter Spencer Stanhope, of Cannon Hall, Barnsley, Yorkshire. The deceased, who had resided in Auckland for the last few years, was owner of the yacht Ilex, in which he made frequerit cruises to various on -the North Island coast.