PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 177, 26 July 1906, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Colonel Mitchell went South yesterflay afternoon by the Rotoiti. Mr George George, director of technical education, has been granted a fortnight's holiday leave by the Board of Education. Mr Gilruth, of the Government Agricultural Department, was a passenger from Wellington yesterday by the RotoitL The Rev. A. T. Thompson and Mrs Thompson left the Thames on Tuesday for Masterton, where Mr Thompson is to be inducted to his new charge on August 2. „ Mr Fossey, of the Thames Technical School staff, has received notice of his transference to Auckland. His place at Thames will be taken by Mr Johnston, a recent arrival from Home. A very old Thames resident has passed away in Mr Charles Edmund Bull, who died on Tuesday night. Mr Bull has resided at the Thames since the early mining days, and has been a participator in many of its vicissitudes. He leaves a grown-up family. Mr G. Fairfield, the recently-appointed electrical instructor at the Thames School of Mines, will commence his new duties about the middle of August. Mr Fairfield is at present holding a position in the Gear Company's works at Petone, Wellington. Mis 3 Celia Mavis, of Anderson's recent pantomime company, left by the s.s. Rotoiti yesterday afternoon en route to Christehurch. Miss Mavis has been under medical treatment in Auckland for a throat trouble, and goes to Christehurch to recuperate. At St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, on Tuesday evening, Mr C. L. MacDiarmid was ordained and inducted as an elder of the congregation by the moderator, the Rev. W. Gow. The induction of Mr James Primrose as elder had to be deferred owing to his indisposition.