PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 78, 23 July 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs, Winthrop has boon appointed teaclieF of the Taliora- school, the appointment to date from August 1.

Mr S. Pitt left Stratford by mail train this morning on a holiday trip to South Australia.

Mr J. B. Campbell, stationmaster. is at present off duty, being confined to his home through illness.

The Mayor, Mr W. P. Kirkwood, returned to Stratford last night after having attended the Municipal Conference in Wellington.

The Taranaki Education Board yesterday passed a vote of sympathy with the widow of the late Mr R. C. Templer, who was at the time of his death in charge of the Tarata school.

Mr H. Trimble (chairman of the Taranaki Education Board) has been appoined the Board’s representative on the advisory committee of the New Plymouth Technical College.

Mr W. Slaughter, Inspector in charge of Ithe Labour Department Office in Taranaki, has been transferred on promotion to the head office, Wellington, and leaves for that city on tho 31st inst.

Mr Andrew Fairhairn, having vindicated his personal honor, has decided (says the Wellington Post’s Dunedin correspondent), to distribute among deserving public bodies the solatium of £BSO which the Christchurch jury awarded him in the recent libel action against the Otago Daily Times.

Thomas Blades, of Yarwell, a Northamptonshire village, claims that he is the oldest Oddfellow in the world. Blades, who is within two years of being a centenarian, has just completed 74. years’ membership of the Manchester Unity. As a boy of seven he was working for Is 6d a week in minding cows and scaring birds from crops. He is hale and hearty, enjoys his pipe, and believes that the secret of keeping young is “a contented mind and something in it.”

The Taranaki Education Board yesterday passed the following resolution : “That this Board tenders its deepest sympathy to Mrs Allsworth in the great loss she has sustained in the death of her husband, and places on record its appreciation of his services in the cause of education while a member of this Board.” Mr Allsworth was for many years a resident of Taranaki and was particularly wellknown and respected in Stratford, where he was tor some time associated with the editorial department of the “Egmont Settler.”