PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

_ A London message states that Mr William Bateson, M.A., F.A.S.C., wilL be president of the British Association during its visit to Australia. Major-General Slade, an Indian veteran and hero of Maiward, has just died in London. A Wellington telegram reports the death of Mr Robert Chrisenhall Hamerton,< for ir.any years in the Government service, and at one time Public Trustee at the age of 74. Mr John Gibb Dunlop, a shipbuilder, and at one time superintending engiiieer to the Orient Company, is dead. Mr Dunlop introduced triple expansion engines into the Australasian service. The Southland Education Board on * nday received the resignation of R'r Edmond Webber, headmaster of the bouth school, as from January 1 next Mr Webber has been engaged for 44 years in the work of education in New Zealand, 36 years having been pnssed in the service of the Southland Board.