Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 2, 4 September 1923, Page 5

Personal.

Mr T. B. Strong, M.A., B.S.c, chief inspector of primary schools, is visiting Taranaki. '„'.'_, ■', .. "/., ' Mr W. Q. Liddell,: of Stratford, left by this morning's mail train on a holiday trip to Dunedin.

The Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) will visit New Ply-

mouth on Wednesday evening, September 12.

Captain Wm. Waller, harbourmaster at New Plymouth, is at present confined to his 'home suffering from influenza.

■ Mr Albert Manning, a Well-known New Zealand hockey selector and referee, who accompanied the team touring in Australia, died in Melbourne yesterday of pneumonia.

Mr C. For tor, formerly of Midhirst, who is manager of a dairy factory near Paerou, and who recently paid a visit to Stratford, left for Paeroa by |his morning's mail train.

Mr C. J.- Belcher, chairman of the Kltham County Council, accompanied by Mr ,F. Muggeridge, county foreman, left for the fiangitikei district by Monday morning's mail train. It is understood that the visit ik being undertaken in connection wlLh supplies of road metal which have been offered to various counties, in. Taranaki.

After a brief illness there passed away at the Palmerston North hospital Mr H. D. Stride, of the Forestry Department, who, up to the time of his illness, was the officer iu charge of the sand dunes reclamation work at Oroua Downs. The late Mr Stride, who was 4!> years of age, was taken ill suddenly, suffering from an old internal complaint, and he was removed to the hospital where death supervened a few hours later.

Mr George Overton, one of Wanganui Education Board's organising teachers, has been appointed headmaster of the Terrace End School, Palmerston North, In place of Mr William Smith, of Wellington, who has the appointment,

Mr W. W. Rountree, formerly headmaster of the Worser Bay schoolc and for three and a-half years past headmaster of the Blenheim school, has been appointed headmaster of the Richmond school, Christchurch. He will take up his jww duties on October 1,