PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3827, 9 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

A memorial to the late Mr T. E. Taylor will bo unveiled in Christchurch next month during the annual conference of the New Zealand Alliance. Mr J. C. Hill, who for some 23 years has been headmaster at the i'eilding District High School, relinquished his duties on Wednesday, having retired on superannuation. His Honor Judge Jones leaves on .Monday for Wairoa to continue the sitting of the Native Land Court. Mr J. C. White, driller for the N.Z. Oilfields, Ltd., died yesterday morning. Deceased was suffering from an internal complaint, and lor the past tvko months had been in a private hosJ&ol. Deceased was unmarried, and had no relatives in New Zealand. Mr Roadie, of Wanganui, is at present relieving Mr Sargisson, station clerk, at the Gisborim railway station. The Mayor (Mr J-. R. Kirk), who is a captain of Cadets, has been granted twelve months’ leave of absence iiom his military duties, in order to devote liis time to municipal matters. A Dunedin P A. wire says that at iho annual meeting of the- Cm tea. Temperance Reform Council it was •flccid.'dt to engage Mr J. -T. T ninkljn, of Sydney, and late of Nelson, as pmmanent organiser. The appointment of Messrs Peter |>,rr and J. H. Richardson as members of the Public Service Appeal Hoard —the former as Chairman—is Gazetted. —P.A - / Mr A D. Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of the Public Service Ronr<T will arrive in Gisborne by the Kn> steamer Takapuna tins morning. Mi Thomson. who was at one time Stipendiary Magistrate at 1 aimers ton North, will occupy an ofhco m preme Court buildings, where all ofh-J-ers of the Civil Service desirous ot 1 interviewing him may do so..