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Evening Star, Issue 17226, 16 December 1919, Page 9

PERSONAL

Latest appointments by th» Otaeo Education Board: Miss Margaret M. Koss/of fctudnoime House, as senior cookery instructress of the board's school cla.«e* to be in charge of the North Dunedin manual' training centro; Mr Thos. E. M'Ke*»uian sole teacher, Kahuika; Miss Gladvs- \J.' Guy, mistress, East Taieri; Miss M. B. I. Gwyn, sole teacher, Glenkenich. 'Mrs John A. Johnson, who died at Hobart on the 13th inst., was well known m Otago. As Miss Laura Elizabeth Kingston she was a pupil teacher and a student in the Training College under the Education Board. Her first appointment was under the Government, as assistant at Burnham Industrial School. Two years later, in 1887, Miss- Kingston was appointed by the board as mistress at Anderson Bay, and remained there a year, when she became an assistant at Maeandrew Road School. In 1889 she married Mr Johnson, who had been a teacher in various schools, and how holds the position of principal of the Training College at Hobart. ° Miss OJga B, Perry, formerly of the Iceal branch of the Labor Department, now of head office, Wellington, has passed the reporters' examination, held under the Shorthand Reporters Act, 1908. Mr and Airs A. E. Allison and Miss Jessie Allison left Dunedin bv the first express this morning for Wellington, where Mr Allison will take up his duties as district manager for the Government Insurance Department, to which position he was recently promoted. Mr P. B. Bannerman was to-day admitted as a solicitor of tho Supreme Court.