PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. G. Fowlds will arrive from 'Auckland this afternoon. The 'Hon. T. Mackenzie will on Thursday evening deliver a lecture on "Explorations in Fiord Land," to the students of Canterbury College. Mr. E. Wastney, accountant of the National Bank, still lies ill at his residence, Lower Hutt, and his condition is causing his friends considerable anxiety. Mr. R. M. Goldsman. clerk in the Official Assignee's Office at Dunedin, replaces Mr. F. J. Tipping, of the Wellington Supreme Court staff, who has been transferred to the solicitor's office in the Public Trust Office. A cablegram has been received in ! Gisborne announcing the death in Eng--I land of Mr. Adolphus Good. He was suffering from diabetes, and went to j England in the hope that he might gain I some benefit from the advice of specialists in the Old Country. He was over sixty years of age. Lastrevcning, at the service of the Syd-ney-street Primitive Methodist Church, Rev. C. E. Ward announced the death of (Mr. 'William Leteher, who passed away early yesterday morning. For the past twelve years Mr. 'Letcher had been organist °^ *' le church, and had performed ■his duties in a most faithful manner. A memorial service will be held next Sunday evening. •Mr. David ID. Jones, of the Petone I Borough Council clerical staff, has receivsd news of his appointment as clerk to the Pohangina County Council in succession to Mr. Coyle, the new secretary to the ■Wellington Hospital Trustees. In addition to holding a position on the Borough Council staff, tMr. Jones has actqd as secretary to the Hutt Val-' ley Tramway Board, and lion, secretary to the AEsociation Football Club. There were 77 applications for the county clerkship. The retirement takes place at the end of the year of 'Mr. James Home, headmaster of the Petone District High School. Of some 36 years' service, Mr. IHorne has spent 23 years at Petone. During his term of office he has seen v the number of names on the Petone 'School roll gradually increase from 315 to 1015. Mr. Home was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1844, and was 1 educated at the Glasgow High School. He first chose mercantile life, and was for some two years in a -counting-house. In lie arrived in Australia on :i Visit to some distant relatives, remaining with them for three years. Leaving 'Australia he ■ came to New Zealand" following- a station life and attaining the position of manager. In the year 1873, "Mr. Home became first assistant to -Mr. Holmes's well-known school at Te Aro, Wellington. Severing his connection with Te Aro School, he was appointed headmaster of the Tawa Flat School in the following year, and retained that position till he was transferred to Petono m 1857.