PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12768, 22 March 1906, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr David Stewart, at present headteacher at the Duntroon School, was at today’s meeting of the Education Board appointed to the new position of head-master of the Model School in connection with the training institution. Mr Stewart served his apprenticeship in the Macandrew road Si bool, and has been teaching at Lowbum, Oamaru, Duntroon, and other places. We are extremely pleased to be in a position to state (says the Oamaru ‘Mail’) that Dr Don is now in better health than has been his portion for many months, and though his eyes still require careful attention, the doctor is otherwise almost his old self again. Colonel Kitchener, who is at present on a visit to his sister at Kurow, was invited to attend the opening of the new Drill Hall at Oamaru, but regretted his inability to be present. Mr T. E. Donne, Superintendent of the Tourist Department, left for Christchurch to-day on ms way to Hanmer. Mr Alfred Hill, the well-known Wellington composer, has accepted a commission to set to music the competition ode in eon-, nection with the New Zealand Exhibition, Mr W. D. Mason will be a candidate for one of the Southern seats on the Otago Education Board when the division is announced. The Department of the Tourist and Health Resorts replied to the Acclimatisation Society at Christchurch acknowledging receipt of a petition relating to the transfer of Mr Blow, the tourist officer, from Christchurch to Invercargill, and expressing regret that the department did not see its way to permit him to remain in Christchurch. Tho department states that transfers are necessary to enable agents to obtain a thorough knowledge of the colony. An old man has forwarded to the Dunedin Hospital Trustees a sum of £lO for his maintenance in the hospital when ill fifteen years ago.