PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 20030, 22 November 1928, Page 5

PERSONAL

“ We have had no servant who has given more faithful service,” said the chairman Mr J. Wallace), when the Otago Education Board to-day accepted, with regret, the resignation of Mr <). B. Grant, the head master of the Musselburgh School. Mr Grant has served close cm fifty-one years as a teacher in the Otago district. The board unanimously decided to send tha retiring head master a letter of congratulation on the success of his work, and of hope that his eventide would be prolonged. Mr T. G. Slorric, assistant designer at the Ttoslyii WoolU'll Mills, has accepted a position as designer at the Ballarat Woollen Mills, and will be leaving Dunedin with his family by the Manuka on December 6.

Mr G. F. Jackson. assistant supervisor of (.ho money order and savings bank branch, Wellington Post Oliice, lias been promoted to the position of supervisor of the same department in the Dunedin Post Office. Mr C. M. L. Dunckley, dork in Die Hamilton Post Office, has been promoted to the position of assistant supervisor of the parcels branch in the Dunedin office. Mr T. L. Darby, clerk in the Chief Post Office, Wellington, lias been promoted to the position of assistant supervisor of the stamps, delivery, and registration branch in the Dunedin Post Office. The loss sustained by life-saving throughout the world by the death of Mr William Henry, the founder of the Royal Life Saving Society, was referred to by Mr H. 11. Henderson (president) at last night’s meeting of the Otago head centre of the Royal Life Saving Society. Thousands of lives had been saved from drowning through the instrumentality of Mr Henry in forming the society, said Mr Henderson. A vote of condolence with the relatives of the deceased was carried. Appointments were confirmed as follows by the Otago Education Hoard to-day: John Finlay, head teacher, Kakanui; John J. Moyle, sole teacher, Kahuika; Evelyn M. Kibblowhite. fourteenth assistant, Forbury; Evelyn C. Caspar, tenth assistant, George Street; Annie G. Shiels, eighth assistant,, Kaikorai; Effic M. M’Kinnon, assistant, Pino Hill. The following resignations were accepted to-day by the Otago Education Board:— Peter J. Anderson, head teacher, Dunbnok; James F. Wilson, bead teacher, Maori Hill; John B. Grant, head teacher, Musselburgh; Catherine Murray, sole teacher, Fruitlands; Elizabeth Russell, sole teacher, Hyde; Marion M‘K. Carson, sole teacher, Makarora; Elizabeth M. Grant, solo teacher, Spylaw Valley; Reginald Allan, first assistant, Anderson’s Bay; Mary E. M'Curdy, first assistant, Forbury; Hilda £. Cameron, assistant, Macandrcw Road; Alice Snowball, sub-assistant, St. Glair; Hectorina J. Macdonald, secondary assistant, Palmerston D.H. Dr W. Marshall Macdonald is on bis way to Wellington to attend a dominion meeting of the Boy Scouts to-morrow. Mr A. Wood was a passenger for Wellington by the through express to-day. Mr J. L. Salmond left this morning for Nelson, where ho has business to transact. Mr J. R. Kirk wont away by the 11.34 train to-day for bis homo in Gisborne. Mr R, G. Brophy, business manager for Commander Byrd, left Dunedin this morning for Wellington to meet his chief. Mr J, P. Pago, of Auckland, was a passenger for Christchurch by this morning’s express from Dunedin. Colonel ,F. Symon, director of artillery, and Major A.'ll. Williams, left Dunedin by train to-day for Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Cecil Lipman, of Grafton (New, South Wales), after spending a holiday in Dunedin as the guests of Mr John Jacobs, went away this morning to catch the Sydney steamer. It is fitting to supplement tho hurriedlywritten notice of the career of Mr Robert Hay that appeared in yesterday’s issue upon receiving tho announcement of his death at Waitomo Caves, for Mr Hay was a man who, by reason of his personality, as well as his professional worth, had great influence in Otago and indeed throughout New Zealand. He was educated at Wimbledon College, England, and came out by the .ship Romney. One of his early successes in this country was in pursuance ot his hobby of yachting. He won an intcrprovincial race at Eyttclton with the cutler Spray. His scholastic knowledge also marked him as a man of superior attainments, though he made no boasts in that or in any other way, being by nature most modest. Professionally he attained an eminent reputation that began in New Zealand in tho Provincial Government service, developed when ho was in partnership with Mr D. L. Simpson, and him to front rank amongst New Zealand civil engineers during his lonchand practice in Dunedin from 1874 till he retired in 1920. Ho was noted in the profession for ills practicable and his accuracy in estimates. Some of the important bridges over tli© Clutha were from bis designs, and it is even now remembered that lie reported on the Leo Stream water supply for Dunedin. Quito a number of engineers who now are well in maturity claim Mr Hay as their professional parent, including Mr L. 0. Beal Mr F. J. Williams, the lata Mr B. B. Gousion, Mr E. 0. Weir (assistant chief surveyor), Mr H. Trossider, Mr John Halliday (engineer lo the Melbourne Harbour Trust), and Mr N. L. Falkiner (of the Lands and Survey Department at Invercar<Hll). Mr Hay ifi survived by three daughters and two sons. One is the widow of Sir Charles Burdett, another is _ Mrs Trimnell, of Christchurch, and the third is unmarried, and resides in Dunedin. One of the fionfi lives at Brighton, and the other is at Home. , Among the visitors to the Grand Hotel nr e Viscount and Viscountess mmpden, the Hon. Barbara Brand, Miss MartinSmith (London), Messrs R. Sutherland and C. Scott (Sydney), Mr J. D Agar (Melbourne), Mr J. H. Stewart (Auckland, Messrs A, Moncur. J. L. Bruce, W. M. Paterson F. C. Allen, and L. W. Gardner (Wellington), Miss Beta Smith, Mr R. Anderson (Christchurch). . Late arrivals at the Excelsior Flo tel include Messrs S. Alexander and D. Leys (Wellington), Mr F. D Meehan (Tmiaru), Mr and Mrs Squire (Palmerston), Mrs Burnett (Queenstown).