PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10631, 9 May 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr W. C. Bavies, who has for tihe Jiast seven 'years been agricultutat instructor to the' Wellington Education Board', has been selected to suoceed Mr Chanters at headmaster at the Greytown District High School Mr , jDiayies. of the.Mawriceville school priortb;lias'ehtei'ingupcm ' special work. Has '.retirement' from the agricultural instructorship has been. entirely at Ins own request, and chiefly I for family reasons. ! Mr James, Harvey, for many years iderX-ificd with the Agricultural Dei 'vartanent,-. and well-known in Master- ' ton,, where he did excellent service in 1 the Stock Office, has been retired on superannuation. It is Understood that Major-General Finn (ex-Inspector-General of theCommonwealth Forces), who arrived in .Wellington by the Ruahine from London ia&t week, contemplates taking up la.:, a in New Zealand. Mr Fra-rJc Lawry, ex-M.P., was entertained at EUeisliie by friends, and presented with an illumined address and purse of ■sovereigns. Among the speakers was Mr Lang, representing. Manukau, who mentioned Mr Lawry's political sea-vice of a qua liter of a century, and said no man -was 'better fitted for a seat' .in the Legislative ; Council. The Hon. A. M. Myers, Minister, of Hallways, Defence, and'Finance,'-went South by tho Maori last nighit, • and will be away for a week or ten days. He will visit Christchwrdli, Timaru, Dunedin, Invereargil! and other towns on Departmental business, chiefly on railway matters. ' . The Hon. J. Colvin, Minister of Mines, left Wellington yesterday to attend the funeral of the late Hon. James McGowan, as a representative of the Government. •Mr Valentine Harrison, an old colonist, died at Hawera on Sunday. He was born at Omata, New Plymouth, in 1854. After serving for a number of years on the literary staffs of the ' Wairampa Standard, the Manawatu Times and the Mauawatu Standard, he started the Woodville Examiner for. a company. Owing to ill-health, however, he had to relinquish newspaper:' work, and returned to Taranaki. The body of the late M,r H. S. War-. dell was brought to Masterton last evening, and wall be interred in the local cemetery this afternoon. The Rev. S. J. Serpell left Masterton yesterday for New Plyinoiith, where he will spend a week's.vacation.