PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 June 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. —* Ihe death of Mr AAiliie Firnie, the goiter, is announced in a London cable. The retiring members of the Taranaki Education Board have been reelected unopposed. The members reelected are: Messrs A. Lees (south ward), P. J. H. AVhite (north ward) and R. .J, Deare (New Plymouth area). Mr T. B. Strong, Chief Inspector of Schools, leaves New Zealand on July 8 on a visit to Fiji and Samoa, and will subsequently attend the Australian Conference of Inspectors of Schools, to be held in Brisbane in August. Mr A\ r m. Cron, of Opunake, who was selected to fill the position of headmaster at the Bulls District High School, has now received word of his selection as headmaster of the Owaka (South Island) District High School. Air Cron has not yet made a definite choice of schools.

Air J. Thompson, who has been chief assistant at the Pihama Dairy Co’s main factory for some time, lias been appointed manager to the AA T aitoitoi Dairy Co All* Thompson is a first-class cheesemaker, and competed successfully at the recent New Plymouth. Show. At the Stratford office of the New Zealand Loan and Afercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. on Tuesday evening the manager, Air. AY. AY. Gabites on"behalf or the staff, presented Air. A. N. Davies, who has been promoted to agent at Opotiki, with a handsome travelling rug. Air. Davies has been in the Str.it" tord branch for the last five and a half years.

A large gathering of citizens at AVangnnui last night entertained Air. T. B. AYilliams (ex-Alavor) as a mark of appreciation of his forty years of public set vice. Airs. AYilliams was presented ttith a silver tea- mid coffee service, each piece being suitably inscribed. Air! \A ilhams was given an illuminated album, m which were enumerated the various public positions held by him. The newly-appointed vicar of Inglewood, the Rev Horace Lindsey, arrived at Auckland from Canada this week, accompanied by Airs. Lindsey and two sons. Mrs. Lindsey i s the sister of the Rev. C. H. Grant Cowen. vicar of St. Matthews’. Auckland, and formerly of Hawera. .Before receiving the call to Inglewood, Mr. Lindsev was a rector of Sutton. Toronto and lie hod also been bishop’s commissary at Montreal.