PERSONALS.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13659, 30 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONALS.

The death was anuoiinrVd. yesterday Of Private K. YV. Holmes, Second Khodesia Regiment, on active service in. British Knst Africa. The chief staff, officer of the Salisbury Defence l*'orce lias, forwarded souvenirs to Mr 8. .'Holmes, brother of the ileeeaseil sohliev. Private Holmes, many years ago, was a I'csident of I'npakain I'lains,

Another well-known identity of North O.tuyo jiassed away yesterdtiy in the person of William Scott, who died at his home in t'sk street. The deceased "was born in I'aisley, Scotland, in IS,');!, and came to New Zealand in the year ISOl', lauding at Timaru on .December lGth, by the ship Kchuugi. lie only renamed in South I'aiitei'biiry a short "While, and on eomiiijj tn Oamaru, engaged in business as a butcher, and also as a general stock dewier. He hiter took up farming and was engaged iu sneli pursuits in the Knrow and Kvaiisdnle districts for some years, afterwards returning to Oainaru ■where lie has lived in retireiiHcnt for some time, The 3ate ill- .Scott outlived the wife of Lis second marriage, and his only son pre-deceased him seme years ago.

At the meeting of the North School Committee on Monday night the following resolution, proposed by Mr N. Meldrnm ami seconded by Mr li. Rusbatch, was carried uiianimntisly: •'That the members of the committee of the- Oamarn North School, knowing the long and faithful services so zealously rendered in the cause of education in Otago in general and in North Otago in particular by Mr James Mitchell, whose intelligent graspoopf p educational matters is second to none, deplore the loss of his services to the Otago lidncatio'n Board, ami that they record their appreciation of his untiring efforts tq further thodistiict Vinterest in (ill matters relating to education." Both the mover and seconder spoke in eulogistic terms of the services that Mr Mitchell had rendered to the cause of education, and remarked that the result of the'election had been something more- than a .surprise'. 'Mr Mitchell, in acknowledging the resolution, said it came a* a surprise to him, for he had neither anticipated nor desired such a motion by the committee, as w Die result of the election, he had learned to accept defeat iu a philosophical spirit, It was a complete solace to'know that any aer-' vice lie had rendered to education was appreciated," fur he had received evidence on that point in a sheaf of let'ers and telegrams from his former colleagues on the board, school committees, and others. Possibly at some future time he might be permitted to re-enter the board, but whether he did so or not his interest in education remained undiminished.