PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 14786, 30 January 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Our Auckland correspondent wives: Deep i-cT<?t w.-,s foit )>v the many friends, of Mr and Mrs 'l'. \V. Leys when the tact became known on Saturday evening that .Mrs Le-vs had succumbed after undergoing i.n op-ration (or a painful malady from which sl.e had suffered for several yeare. The operation wai?. recommended after consultation iiy four medical men,_ and «« performed 'on Saturday morning. Mrs Leys recovered consciousness, but the shock proved too mucli. and she died as the result of heart failure*. Twontv-five applications wore received by the Gisborne H:irbor Board for the position of engineer and secretary combined, at a. salary of £7OO per annum. It wjis decided to ask Mr J. A. Maedonald, M.I.C.E. (Adelaide) to inU'rview the board. Mr Macdonakl has had extensive experience in South Australia and Johannesburg, and also a.s a student in England and America. Mr J. A. Hawkins, solicitor, who has managed affairs at Mr A. C. ilanlon's office' for some voars past, loaves here next week to start practice on his own account, at Te Puke, in the Tauranga district. Quite a number of young Dunc<lin solicitors are now practising their profession in the North Island, where (hey are all doin-g well. Mr Hawkins should do Likewise. . . Mr W. 15- Appleby, of the Waiwera School, has been appointed he.-wl master of the Lovcli's Flat School, and MissPelvin mistress of the Coal Creek School. Mr R. H. Hunter takes up the duties of second .assistant at the Arthur Street School. Again a new departure is being mad-:' by the Wanganui It-duration Hoard in the temporary appointment of Miss Rangi Druninioiid, of Aorangi. a.s temporary assistant at the new school at Cameron's Line, to be called the To Ara Kura School. Mies Drummond, who is only 16 years old, was dux of the Turakina Maori College, and had teaching experience there over'2o Maori pupils at the new school. .—Feildimc wire. At the'invitation of the, Ota go Railway League, who are the joint organisers of next- week's excursion to Ola<:o Centrai. Mr.l. F. Arnold will make one of the i»rty, and we understand that the parliamentarians wiJl include Mr W. H. Herri es and Mr A. L. Hcrdmun. The Hon. .1. A. Millar is uuablo i<. accompany the party, owing to the pressure, of departmental ditties.