PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17322, 23 May 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Miss Gladys M. MTjeod has been appointed first assistant at the Clyde School, Miss Fannv Hubbard sole teacher at Shag Point, and Miss Florence A. Smith sole teacher at Nugget Point. The Savings Bank Trustees have appointed Mr E. Rosevear to represent them on the Board of Management of the Techt in succ ession to the late Mr J. Ji. White. ' f Mr Aubrey Houston, South Island agent tor the Dayton Moneyweight Scale Company, underwent an operation for appenfactorly" progressing satisA Christchurch Press Association message o e death occurred yesterday of Mr Stephen Nosworfchy, father of Mr W Aoswort.hy, M.P., in his ninetieth year". We was engaged in pastoral pursuits in Canterbury for many years. He was well known in the early days as a breeder and . owne#. of racehorses, and bred a number ot animals famous in the history of the turt of Canterbury, including Lurline He » several years manager of the Park otud Company. ' x . co ; Tp spondent sends us a graceful 3 tribute to the memory of Mr Alexander « ?i e ' T^' h ho, os ® death was recorded this week Mr Kyle, he writes, "wielded a great power educationally, and set his mark on many a mind and character. If it be true . that the teacher, hke the poet, is bom not made, there was Mr Kyle's life-work foreordained for him. He rose rapidly in position until he became headmaster of one ot the larger schools in Dunedin—Mornington. There he remained until he retired irom educational work, about 18 years ago, having, after casing to teaoh, sat for a time as a member of the Education Board - of Otago. Teaching, for Mr Kyle, was not something that occupied the hours _ from 9 a.m. till 3.30 p.m., from Monday , morning until Fridav afternoon. It was , the great passion of his life, the work that filled his heart, so that even in these last : sad days, before the end, he fancied himself back in his old school, where he had ■ given so ungrudgingly of his best; nor did he confine himself to his stated work. When there was a boy, or man, striving to pass some examination, to gain some certificate he was ready and eager to • c Ii " foe or ' rew ard. The number - ot those thus indebted to him is unknown: the dav shall declare it. His pupils are to be found m all parts of the dominion, in Australia, too, and America. So strong was his personality that it was not possible to come into close contact with him with--2- catching something of his spirit, something of his dnfiniteness of purpose his love of work his eagerness to help 'lame dogs over stiles. So in many corners of the land, in the lives of busv teachers, ot hard-worked medical men, of toilers of' > every kind, his influence st.il] lingers. Were it possible, in ancient Highland fashion for each of those ho has helped to bear a stone to the sunny slope on which he lies there would rise to heaven a noble cairn' In grateful memory of Alexander Kyle.' "