PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 153, 30 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr G.',Bigg-Wither lias resigned his position as sole teacher of tlie Robin Hbod Bay sctiopl. ;. Mr G. Ferguson has been reappointed a rrepresentative of the Wellington Education Board on the Marlboro.ugh Jligh "School Board. 'i Renter cables from London reporting; the death from heart failure, of Sir George Birdwood, the great authority and .writer on the genealogy of the Eastern peoples. "■■■'•■■■■.:': r " " 7 ■ >-Chaplain-Captain G. B. Barnett>(Church ■of Eiagland) has reported atFeatherstbn Camp.. Chaplain-Cap--tain Barnett is a son' of Mr A. W^ Barnett,- "Roydale," Tua Marina. :

v On Wednesday the Wellington Edu-r nation Board heartily congratulated Mr F. H. Bakewell on his, appoint--; ment as chief inspector in the Wellington education: districts The chair--man added that the board had every reason to congratulate itself also on, so good an appointment. When replying, Mr Bakewell remarked that? shirty-five years, ago he had heen ra the service of : the Marlborough! Board,' which was now joined with Wellington.

• !••' x ° yen> Archdeacon Grace, whoser y intervals of rest in the charge of his extensive pastorrite have been few. ancl '^ i*H 5S tween over a, long period, has : * j Blenheim for a well-deserved holi^ "ay. He proceeded to Wellington, and( ; will spend a mouth recuperating im thp North Island The services at the* Church of. the Nativity to-morrow , will be conducted by the Rev. F QuiKtrell; and later the Bishop of £ Nelson assist in relieving Arch-^ ?< deaeoM3race during his furlough. ( Rifleman Ernest Fraser, who ha.9 •■ • "lade the supreme sacrifice.:-at the front, was for five years a member,of. ( the teaching staff at the Renwicktowi* ■ school before- his appointment to the charge of the Te Awaite school. He resigned the teachership of the Grassmere school to enlist for the service ot Ms Ring and Empire. His sterling i personal qualities gained for him thes estenm of all with whom he came into ''' contact, and deep sympathy is felt , for lm widowed mother, a resident of the Renynck district, where the gallant soldier was born and bred.