PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 131, 30 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. A. C. Bretherton, of the Public Trust Office, has just returned from a holiday in the Taranaki district. Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, returned fiom Christchurch this morning. Mr. M'Haig, formerly superintendentengineer for the Union Steam Ship Company in Sydney, was to have left Liverpool by the s.s. Runic for Sydney on 17th November. Mr. Henry D. Bates, assistant officer-in-charg© of the Wanganui Telegraph Office, is retiring at the end of this year. He is a eon of Major Bates and a half-brother of the late Mr. Charles Waitara. The death occurred at Onehunga last night of an old Foxton identity in the person of Mrs. Austin, senior. Her remains are being conveyed to Foxton for interment, telegraphs our 'Foxton correspondent. The Governor has accepted an invitation to attend the presentation to Mother jMary Joseph Aubert at the •Town Hall on Saturday night. On' Tuesday His Excellency will leave for the Manawatu. At the meeting of the Wellington Education Board yesterday the following resignations were accepted : — Miss L. Morton, assistant, Carterton; Miss L. Brewer, head teacher, Dalefield; Mrs. Evans, head teacher, Mungaroa ; Mr. J. Duggan, relieving assistant, Shannon. The following appears in the annual report of the Students' Hostel Society : — "Mrs. Picken's tragic death last year deprived us of an able and zealous member of the committee, whose influence was always exercised for good, and whoso gracious manner endeared her to all her fellow workers." Advices by to-day's mail state that Mr. John Barr, of the staff of the-Syd-ney Bulletin, has been elected president of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists. There were two candidates. Mr. BaiTj who was- previously on the staff of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, was formerly a well-known pressman in Wellington. The death is announced of Mr. James (Tucker Robinson, who settled in Blenheim in 1855, and lived there until he died. The, deceased took a prominent part hi local politics. He has left a grown-up family of ten. He was a brother of the late Mr. John Tucker Robinson, for many years secretary of the Marlborough Education Board, and uncle of Mr. Edward Robinson, of Sydney, formerly in the Customs in Wellington. Leave of absence for varying periods was granted by the Wellington Education Board at its meeting yesterday to the following : — Misses M. Scott (assistant, South Wellington), M. Gibb (assistant, Te Horo), Callam (assistant, South Wellington), E. Button (Ngapoputu), Haggett (assistant, Lansdowne), J. M'Kellar (sole teacher, Mangamaire), M. Sicely (assistant. Upper Hutt), and Mr. Pope (head teacher, Kaiwarra). The application of Miss Craig (head ieacher, Mount Cook Infants'J for six months' leave was deferred until next meeting. News has been received in Wellington of the deatn from heart affection at the age of fifty of Mr. John Buchanan, Glasgow. He qualified as a marine engineer, sat for his first-class certificate in New Zealand, and was in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company, being about ten years in the New Zealand and intercolonial trades'. He left New Zealand to join his brothers in partnership as a director of the Buchanan Line of steamers which was 'established by his father in 1852. The late. Mr. John Buchanan was well known to a large number of the older engineers of New Zealand. The following are candidates for the quarterly examination of officers for various ranks, to be held on 7th December: — Acting-Captains D. J. Gibbs (Engineers), F. E. Greenish (Boys' Institute Cadets), E. V. Bevan (Pc-tone Navals), and R. E. Martin (St. Anne's Cadets), for the rank of^ captain ; Acting-Lieuten-ants G. D. Hamilton (Heretaunga M.R.), W. B. A. Quick (Boys' Institute Cadets), H. H. Dean (Victoria College 0.T.C.), A. H. Hollis (No. 2 Company G.A.). for lieutenant ; Captain F. Ross (Hutt Valley Rifles), for major. Captain Davio, V.D., will be the supervising officer. The death is reported from Auckland of Mr. John Rosser, an early arrival in that city. The late Mr. Rosser, who was in his 80th year, arrived in Auckland from the Old Country in 1872. He stai'ted business in the city as a builder, but in 1882 removed to Awhitu, where he took up land. Leaving Awhitu in 1904, Mr. Rosser resided at Eden Terrace until his death. He was at one time a member of the old Karangahape District Highway Board, and while at Awhitu he was chairman ol the local Road Board. He leaves three sons, Mr. William Rosssr (Remuera), Mr. Arthur Rosser, and Mr. Joseph Rosser, and one daughter, Miss Rosser.