PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel R. J. Collins and 'Dr. 'H. Pollen, members' of tho War 'pensions Board, and Mr. G. C. Faclie (secretary) have returned to Wellington/ after a tour of tho North Island. -

The many friends of Mr. C. H. Dickerson, late of. Karori and Pahautanui, will regret to learn that he died yesterday at a private hospital in Wellington,, after ail illness of' several weeks. Mr., Dickerson was bom in London, and came out to New Zealand as a youth. He entered into the retail drapery trade here for a short period,and was afterwards with' Messrs. Brailsford and. Co. for 'several, years. He then joined the late Mr. Edmondson in the firm of Edmondson mid Dickerson. On the death of Mr. Ed-' mondson, Mr. Dickerson took sole control of the business, from which he retired some five years ago owing to failing health. Much sympathy will be felt, for his widow, son, and daughter.

Mr. W. H. L. Foster, at present headmaster of. the Petone District High School, has been appointed to succeed Mr. W. T. Grundy as headmaster of the Clyde Quay School. It is understood Mr. Foster was selected by_ the board from about thirty applications. .Mr. Foster, who is among the bestknown educationists in the district, holds a Class B1 certificate, and is a master who lias obtained good results' wherever he has been hi' charge. He worked himself up through all grades' in the Canterbury and Wellington districts, had country experience A Paraparauniu and Manakau, and was afterwards an assistant master at the Clyde Quy School when it was in its infancy. ' He "was later appointed headmaster of the Mitchelltown • School, from there was promoted to the Mount Cook Boys' School, and has been for the .past six years master of the Petone District High School. Mr. Foster is the chairman of the Headmasters' Association in Wellington, and was forsome years secretary of the 'New Zea-' land Education Institute.

Mr. G. H. Broad, overseer of the' Binding Department of the Government Printing Office, who is ; retiring on superannuation after forty years' service, was farewelled on Thursday afternoon by the women's staff, the binders, and other branches of the Department. Handsome presentations on their behalf were made by the Government Printer (Mr. Marcus Marks), who referred to Mr. Broad's valuable work over such a long period, and, oil behalf of the Government, thanked, him for his loyal and capable services..Farewell, speeches were also made by Mr, Skinner (superintendent), Mr. G. S. Butter" (who succeeds Mr. Broad as overseer), Mr. Burns ("father" of the binding room "chapel"), Mr. Wisseri (president of the Government Printing Office Association, who represented the ladies), and Messrs. Osborne and Carter, who had been apprentices under Mr. Broad.-.

Mr. W. H. Cox, at present attached to the Recruiting Branch, has established a good record. He has three sons at the front and one son preparing to go there. He is long past military ago himself, but he 'enlisted last November, and has worn khaki since then, in discharge of the duties of an orderly Previously Jlr. Cox was a messenger at the Parliamentary Buildings.

At yesterday's meeting of the Education Board the following resignations were accepted:—Miss D. Budd, pupil teacher at Ngaio; Miss Maynard, as-sistant-at l'etonc West; Miss Drake, solo teacher, Four Fathom Bay; Mr. W. H. Stevens, assistant at Northland; Miss H. Speedy, solo teafclicr at Takapau; Miss Siiowden, solo, teacher at Wairika; Miss A. O'Leary, sole, toaclier at Hakahaka; Miss B. Buchanan, probationer at Te Horo.

The prizes offered by the Thorndon Committeo of the Catholic Federation to the pupils of tho Marist Brothers'. School, Hawkestone Street, for tho best essay on "The Catholic Federation: Its Aims and Objects," has been won by P. J. A. Emerson, whoso effort was reported upon by the examiners as being of more than usual merit.