PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

At the conference of the Railway Officers' Institute yesterday, Messrs. J. Young and M. Denneby, past presidents of the institute^ were presented with gold badges, suitably inscribed, as a token of their valuable services in the past. Mr. Young, who recently retired on superannuation, was also elected a life-member of the institute.

Mr. F. Bennett, headmaster of Berhampore School, will be retiring at the end of the present month after a teaching career extending over. a period of 51 years. With a view of showing appreciation of Mr. Bennett's work, the householders at Berhampore propose, making him a presentation. The arrangements are in tho hands of the Berhampore school committee, and all ex-students are invited to give practical demonstration of the esteem in which they hold Mr. Bennett.

Mr. Charles Herbert Goull, J.P., late manager of the Napier branch of the National Bank, who died at Auckland this week at the age of 59 years after a serious illness, was born at Otahutui, and was educated at the Pamell Grammar School. He joined the National Bank in 1880, and subsequently opened the Onehunga branch of the National Bank, and was later promoted to be manager of the Dargaville branch. After Temaining in charge there for 16 yeaTs, the late Mr. Gould was promoted to take charge of the Napier branch, which he did in 1910. He was a son of Canon Gould, a resident of Gieborne, but formerly of Auckland, who is now riearing his hundredth birthday. He leaves a widow and two sons, Dr. Gould (at present relieving at the Pukeora Hospital, Waipukurau) and Mr. Kenneth Gould, of Te Pohue

Mr. John O'Shea, City Solicitor, and 'Mrs. O'Shea, before leaving for England by the Port Victor, were met by the staff of tho City Council at the Town Hall, and on behalf of the gathering, Mr. J. R. Palmer (Town Clerk) made them a presentation of a handsome New Zealandmade woollen rug. Mr. Palmer expressed the hop© that Mr. and Mrs, O'Shea would have an enjoyable trip, a pleasant time at Home, and would return to New Zealand in the very best of health. Th-sse sentiments were most heartily endorsed by the city-engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton), the city valuer (Mr. James Ames), and the city treasurer (Mr. Charles Collins). In reply, Mr. O'Shea thanked the staff for the kind thoughts which, had prompted the presentation. Both he and Mrs. O'Shea looked forward with the greatest •pleasure to the journey ahead, and he hoped to return thoroughly restored to health.