PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9706, 31 January 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Wade, Premier of New South Wales, and Mrs Wade, left Wellington for Auckland on Saturday; they sail from Auckland this evening for | Sydney. I Owing to a considerable decrease in the number of children attending ! the Te Ore Ore School, the teaching staff has been reduced, Miss Smith, who has been on the staff for some months past, ha vine been transferred elsewhere. Private advice was received in Masterton on Saturday evening announcing the death of Mr H. E. Gardner, of Turangarere, Main Trunk Line, a member of the wellknown firm of Messrs Gardner and Sons, timber merchants, Masterton. The deceased, who was well-known in j&asterton and the Forty-mile ijusb, had only been ill for a few days, the cause of death being diphtheria. He was 33 years of age, and leaves a wife and family to mourn their loss. Mr G. H. Broome, of Westport, who has just been appointed manager (at a salary of £IOOO a year) of the coal mines which the Victorian Government is opening up at Powlett River, was at one time connected with the Westport Coal Company. He then went to Canada, and on returning to New Zealand he was appointed manager of the WestportStockton mine. Before he left for Canada he vas a member of the tJoard of Examiners under the New Zealand Coal Mines Act. There were forty-seven applications. Of the applicants, seventeen were from Victoria, eleven from New South Wales, seven from New Zealand, five from • Western Australia, four from Queensland, one from Tasmania, one from India, and one from England. These applications were referred to a departmental Board, which sleected the three most eligible, and the final choice was made by the Cabinet.