PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18541, 29 April 1922, Page 13

PERSONAL

Out of 45 applications the Borough Council has appointed Misses Purvis and D. Ruth von to the permanerttSft staff. I ' ---T-iiWil Miss M‘Sweeney, assistant matron at Police Station (Christchurch), has pointed matron and transferred to tbe-Dng-jaj edin station, in place of Miss signed.' ■ , ■ »•••■•■ Mr George A. Turner (organising' fpr the Otago Education Boardjnaq appointed head master of the' BafcKttgfcF District High Sehook / "jS A Sydney Press Association cablo'.rnfe*- ~ £ sage states that Mr W. Downie StewarFati-* 4 Mr W. B. Montgomery (Controller ef Cw;•' toms) sailed by the Moeraki for New land 1 . The Hon. Sir William Fraser arrived "inti town last night from Central Otago. Ho wiU leave this .morning for WeOingfoal It is his intention to return ‘A with the Prime Minister when ' the .latter i visits this city in order to open.ihaj^fSfcrty’ Mr Walter Miller, inspecting officer lor v the Agricultural Department, W«HingtoiV is at present visiting the Otago and Southland districts in his official capacity. Jpe- J-. is at present engaged in departmental- work ■ in Dunedin, and will leave for Invercragftl i early next week, and thence proceeds? Otago Central. On leaving there he IbS' J work northwards. . \ Mr J. T. Martin, president of the Wei- , lington Chamber of Commerce,'will leave! shortly on a world tour. At the meeting i of the Wellington Council of the CharnSr'-, 11 on Monday afternoon Mr J. Myers, on behalf of the members of the council, pre- ■ sented Mr Martin with a silver cigarette - case and a rug, with the best wisbee,of tile i members. Mr Martin, he said,-had given good service to the chamber, and he hoped ■ ■*? that while abroad he would bo able to y obtain information which would' be of fur- 4 ther service to them. Mr Martin, in expressing his gratitude for the gift, said that be ' had already made plana which he believed > would enable him to do some work abroad /’: of advantage to the commercial community^, j A Press Association message from Hastings says that Miss Mary Andrexreg* ,\x Frame, q Dunedin bonk clerk.-TSSe&ESI years, who was on holiday, collapsed wh3»i| retiring to, her bedroom at the Grand Vj-; Hotel last night, and,was found to be deed on the arrival of a doctor. The -deceased - j had spent the day at thq racee,vand77in the evening went to Napier. Miss Frame y, was a highly-valued member of the staff of the Bank of New dSoplh ‘.Wajea with which institution she had -■• nected \for a period of six years.,/.Shq/Jjia two brothers, returned soldiers faironguai Vil Middlemarch. - V At the monthly meeting of ths'CHldb.,, Education Board j-esterday a letter ,waa*si> ceived from Mr J. M’Elrea, head, masterj of the Normal School, announcing' his resig- J&j nation of his position as a teacher under-*J the board. He thanked the board abd its officers for uniform courtesy during his -3 years’ service, and expressed regret ■ that his work had not been mdne-'frbitfid. ■■■'f Ho said he was more than ever impressed with the crudeness of our methods of eduftqtion, but expressed the belief thatjbe tfcfo l! S was not far distant when the’ his awn education would receive mbce-attto* . ; tion; when the teacher’s part would Tbe "i recognised to be to show pupils how ’ educate themselves. The chairman (Mr Wallace), in moving that the resignation Ije accepted with regret, said Mr M'Elreahp* j| a teacher whose loss they would feel. *Mr Vi through his career he had done excellent , 4 work. Und it was a revelation to him to see ' Mr M’Elrea take in hand an infant;,glass, V. lie was never afraid of making an experiment and going off the beaten track. Me ■ J. H. Wilkinson, in seconding the motion; said that Mr M’Elrea was one of.thofoWfc most teachers in the department..- Several * other members of the board spoke-, vary eulogistical!y of Mr M’Elroa’s work, sad ■ the motion was carried!