PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9581, 30 August 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Petersen has been elected CBptain of the Tararua Rifle Club for th« ensuing year. Mr Gregory, Headmaster at the Hustwel! State School, is reportfd to be seriously ill. MrO. C. Pleasants, Liberal candidate foe the Oroua seat at last election, was (stateH a Press Association telegram from Feilding) presented with a purse of sovereigns from the Liberals of the district. Mr Viggers has been appointed Manager of the New Zealand Dairy Union's Creamery at Newman \v succession of Mr W. Cou ins, who has resigned to take up an appointment at Waitoa under ttie Thames Valley Company. Dairymen generally will regret to hear that Mr J. W. Foreman, President of the National Dairy Association, has been advised by his medical attendant to take a prolonged rest. It is, therefore, probable that he will shortly retire into private life. Mr Wm. Francis Fogden, who died at Brooklyn, on Wednesday, aged 81, was at one time in the Royal Navy, and served through the Kaffir War. His funeral took place on Friday afternoon, and was attended by a number of the members of the Wellington Branch of the Royal New Zealand Association of H.M. Veterans. Mr A. T. Parkes, of the Chief Accountants Office New Zealand Railways, who is being transferred to the traffic branch, Masterton, was on Saturday morning the recipient of a handsome« case of pipes from his brother officers. In the absence of the chief the presentation wa made by Mr S. P. Curtis and Mr Parkes suitably replied. Misa Snodgrasa, who has won tha ladies' gojf championship of the Manawatu, beating in the final Mrs Bevan, open champion of New Zealand, has had a rather remarkable record athletically, having been lady champion of the Westport Golf Club since its inception, four years ago, twice (including the present year) West Coast golf champion, lady champion of the two Westport croquet clubs, and she was also the lady in the West Coast combined tennis championship. Her present performance is all the more creditable because this season she has had comparatively little practice on the links. In expressing his acknowledgements to the Wellington Education Board for his re-election as chairman. Mr Robert, Lee remarked that during the last twelve months he had visited every school over the third-class grade in the Board's district, and on each occasion had addressed the senior scholars on topical subjects; he had not missed a single Board meeting, and had regularly attended at the office two or three times weekly. During the year under rtview, the Board had practically re-built some of the.larger schools, and had also erected new schools in important and growing centres. In matters educational there was to be noted a trend of ideas in a direction which he was pleased to see, a trend in the direction of adapting education to the lives of the learners, to the end that all were being fit ted for the work they would have to do in later life.