PERSONAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 August 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

. Mr W. Bruce, who has had a long ana active career in educational matters, has retired from the Wanganui Education Board. It is stated that Mr R. W. Dalton, British Trade Commissioner, will be leaving New Zealand shortly. During the years that he has served in this part of the Empire Mr Dalton has been a particularly successful and popular representative of British trade, and his departure will be widely regretted. Ex-Police Superintendent Wilson who was at one time in charge of the Wanganui and Taranaki police distrfts, arrived in England on June 5. After visiting various parts of Great Britain he went to Norway for salmon fishing, and later on intended visiting France. Mr Wilson has benefited greatly in health on his tour. He returns to New Zealand about November. A Foxton Press Association message states that at a largely attended and i representative meeting of Government supporters in the Manawatu electorate yesterday the candidature of Mr. Joseph Linklater was confirmed and it was decided to tender .to Mr. Edward Newman M.P., a. farewell banquet, to which the Premier and members of the Cabinet will be invited. Mr. George Toms, of the staff of the Hawera Post Office, who has been promoted to be postmaster at Urenui. left Hawera yesterday^ to take un his' new duties. On Friday evening he was presented by the Post Office staff with a handsome clock and his fellow workers wished him every success in his new sphere. The death occurred last week at his brother's residence, Mokauiti, of Mr Evan Morgans, 64 years of age, and a well-known resident. The deceased gentleman had been resident in the King Country for 12 years, and was in the employ of the Public Works Department. Of Welsh extraction, Mr Morgans possessed a pleasing disposition, and was at one tfme a vocalist of high order. He came to New Zealand 37 years ago. A singular thing in connection with his demise is that only a few moments before his death he was singing the old Welsh hymn "Land of My Fathers." The remains were interred in the family burial ground at Okato last Friday. Mr Morgans was very much esteemed by all with, whom he came in contact. Mr Tibbs, who is retiring from th« ( charge of the Auckland Grammar j School, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, ■ and was Tasmanian scholar in 1874, and graduated B.A. at Keble College, Oxford, in 1879, and M.A. in 1883. From 1879 to 1881 -he was mathematical master of St. Edward's School, Oxford, and for the ensuing four years he was second master at the High School, Hobart. He came to Auckland in 1885 as mathematical master of the Auckland College and Grammar School, as it was then known, and in 1893 was appointed headmaster of the school in succession to the late Mr C. F. Bourne. Mr Tibbs has for some years been a member of the University Senate. He tendered his resignation as headmaster of the school some time ago, out at the request of the board agreed to continue in office for the remainder of this year. ! Mr Henry James Dixon, clerk of the Court at Hamilton, who has been ap- | pointed to fill a vacancy existing in ' the Magistracy, was an officer of the ■ Justice Department for some 29 years, and has had a wide experience in almost every division in the offices of the Supreme and Magistrate's Courts. Mr Dixon entered the public service in 1893 as a cadet in the Magistrate's Court at Invercargill. In 1898 he was transferred to the Supreme Court Office, Wellington, in which office he was promoted to the position of clerk. In 1901 Mr Dixon became deputy-regis-trar of the Supreme Court, Invercargill, which office he held until 1904, when he received the appointment of second clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Wellington. A year later he was appointed deputy-registrar of the Supreme Court, Auckland, in which position he remained until 1908, when he was chosen to fill the offices he is vacating to become a Magistrate, namely, clerk of the Supreme Court mid Magistrate's Courts, sheriff, and flenntv-redstrar of tine. Supreme CourT nt Hamilton. Mr Dixon, who some time aero qualified as a solicitor, is 46 years of ape. His reputation as an officer in the Justice Department is high, and his promotion to the imla^vtant position of Magistrate is consiripvprT in legal circles to be well merited.