PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 491, 1 September 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs J. Bott and Misses Bett and Pringle, who have been spending a holiday in Hawaii, are returning on the Makura, due next Friday. Mr David Wilson, of Wanganui, who has severed his connection with the police force after 20 years’ service, was presented by his fellow officers with a gold-mounted pen and tobacco pouch. Cabled advice was received yesterday that Mr A. E. Clausen, of Palmerston North, who left for the United Kingdom in March last, had embarked on his return voyage to New Zealand. Mr S. W. Green is at present seriously ill at his homo, Wanganui. Mr Green retired from the service of the Internal Affairs Department about twelve months ago, on superannuation, and only recently settled in Wanganui. Mr 11. A. Prichard, 8.A., first assistant at the Island Bay School, has been appointed first assistant at the recentlyestablished junior high school, Auckland. Mr Prichard will take up his new duties on October 1. Mr W. A. Waters, engineer to the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, has returned from a visit of inspection to the silver pine timber reserve at Pokako, the milling rights of which are under joint offer to the board and the Manawatu County Council. Mr H. B. Tucker, of Palmerston North, who has been in Australia for the past six weeks on a health trip, returned to New Zealand by the Ulimaroa, and is at present in Auckland. Mr Tucker is expected to arrive in Palmerston North next Tuesday or Wednesday. Sister Kearns, late of the Karitanc Hospital, Dunedin, to-day took up her duties in Palmerston North as Plunket nurse, placing Sister Foster, who has taken up Plunket nursing in Wanganui after a term here as relieving nurse. Sister Kearns is not altogether a stranger to Palmerston North, since she was engaged in a private nursing home in this town for about 12 months some two years ago. Miss May Constance Morrah, whose death took place on August 24, was well known in scholastic circles, being on the staff of the 1 Wellington Girls’ College for many years. She was born in Ballarat, Victoria, and came to Wellington as a child with her family, her father, the late Mr Edward Wakefield Morrah, having been appointed inspector of the New Zealand branch of the Bank of Australasia. She was obliged to resign, her position in 1909 owing to ill-health.