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Southland Times, Issue 17921, 28 April 1917, Page 6

ABOUT PEOPLE

The Earl cvf Suffolk, who commanded a brigade of Field Artillery, has been killed in action. A recent caller at the local Tourist Office was Mr R. .1. Pletchcr, of Geelong, Victoria, who expresses himself as having “a great admiration for the whole of New Zealand.

At the monthly meeting of the Southland A. and P. Association yesterday it was decided to forward to Mr John McCrostie a letter of sympathy with him in his recent bereavement.

A Sydney cable states that Arthur Price, of Wellington, N.Z., a returned soldier, was found dead In bed at the military camp. He contracted malaria in New Guinea and was taken ill overnight. Mr A. IS. Cox, of Kauana, son of Mr W. A. Cox, Kauana, who was called up in the last ballot is only another instance of a volunteer being called up without his name being starred. Mr Cox tried to get away on two occasion, but' failed to pass the medical tost. Lieut. W. Dudley Raymond (son of Mr I. W. Raymond, Invercargill), who was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's recent despatch, is accepting a transfer from the Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry—with which he has been at the front for the last eighteen months—to the 2nd Punjab Cavalry. The following appointments were confirmed at tiie Education Board meeting yesterday:—Mabel, temporary sole teacher, Agnes Somerville; Invercargill South, temporary 2nd assistant, Mary Hannah; Greenhills, temporary assistant, Rita McNeill; Five Rivers Siding, temporary sole teacher, Ethel Daplyn; Browns, temporary assistant, Catherine Hamilton; Glenham, temporary assistant, Ethel King; Maitland, temporary assistant, Ina Currie; St. George, temporary 6th assistant, Elizabeth Young; Tisbury, temporary 2nd assistant, Agnes Graham; Riversdale, temporary assistant, Isabella Mackay. The following resignations be accepted: Kaiwera, Agnes Wilson, head teach; Riversdale, Helen Tait, assistant; Browns, Eliz. A. Smith, assistant: Maitland Village, Ella Wills, assistant: Chatton North, Janet Anderson, head teacher; Forest Hill North, assistant, Ida McKenzie: Chatton North, sole teacher, Janet Anderson (to take effect as on 23rd April) ; Junior National Scholarship, Harry Webb.