PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 20, 19 June 1926, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL.

j Miss Sampson, of Hillsborough- is jat present'on a visit to Mrs Withers, ! Swansea Road.

Mr. G. Fuszard, formerly a well- ! known Napier hotelkeeper, died the other day at Auckland, aged 89.

I In the Marble Bar last night the front house staff gave a supper to Mrs | Lawrence, who is leaving the staff of ! the King's Theatre.

j Miss JVM. Frost, of Wellington, ,rej turned south by the mail train this I morning after spending a holiday in ! Stratford.

death of Mrs. Thomas WMcox, of Jiahorn, occurred suddenly at. Stratford, late last, night. Mrs, Wiillcqs.;was.47 years of age.

A .Press,,Association, message from Sydney.records the death of the. Rev. Harold,tVjjieen, a prominent Methodist, aged, .58.

At the annual meeting of Vtha Stratford County Council this morning, Mr T. li. Anderson was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Council. . "'..'"'

Mr. \Y. B. Grant, president of t,liei Taranaki Agricultural and Pastoral Society, lias been elected "a member of the executive of the North Island A. and I\ Association. .

Mr Percy Thomson was last night e'lV-ted President of the Stfratfbrd) Citizens' Band. Many eulogistic remarks were made in regard to the splendid services rendered the Band by Mr Thompson.

Private: advice has been received in Stratford Co the effect that Mr R. Peebles, late .Postmaster here arid now Chief Postmaster at Thames, is seriously'ill in a private hospital,'in, Auckland.'-"

- At the meeting of the Stratford Band last night feeling reference was made to the death of the late ;Mi\"T. Wilson, who had been an active membar of the Band. As a mark of re* spect to Ms memory, those present stood in silence.

Mr J. G. Nicliol', manager of the Stratford branch of the Fanners'''Coop.; Organisation Society, who lwoutly underwent on operation at Hawera. 'hajs had a set back to the good progress he was; making. Mr Nicbol caught a chill and is again confined to his bed. ; f,

The, Prime Minister has announced' the! following appointments to the Prime .Mink'ter',s Department:—Ml'" C. A. Berendsen, LI.IN', to the Imperial Affairs bianch; Mr R. M. Campbell', M.A., LL.B., to the secretarial staff ;vMr O. A. Jeffery to bsi promoted to be Chief Secretary:' to* the; Prime Minister in succession td Mr'F. D, Thomson.

: The death of .the Rev. Amoa Reader, at Dargaville, was announced in a telegram received by Mr Reader, of Douglas, a brother of the deceased, last'night. ; The Rev. Reader was u popular Methodist minister in Stratford for a term of some years. He left Stratford seven or eight years ago for Auckland, and had; only recently teen transferred flrom filial) city to Dargaville. ( MrF. . Reader was a 'passenger by the mail train thijs morning far. Dargaville.^;•', ,

Mr H. ' Burmester, who has been; secretary of the Stratford.; Citizens' Band for several years, has " relinquished that position. At ■'last'-night's meeting several tributes were j paid to Mr Burmester's valuable assists anco to the Band. Speakers said that he bad always, been a live secretary, who had carried .outhis; onerous duties in a particularly effitieiifc manner. A . recommendation .'-was sent forward, to the executive / that Mr' Burmester bo accorded ;n suitable honorarium, and appreciation of"his Dast services was nlaced on 'record. Mr Burmester suitably responded, and expressed thanks for the great help he bad alwavs received froni Messrs P. Skoglund and W. 'H.' Kelly.

Mr W- A. Curteis, who recently resigned his position as organised teacher under 15 the Taranaki Education Board, which he had held for the past six years, has been appointed headmaster of the school at Te Hapara, ■a ■ suburb of Gisborne. It is a Grade YII, school, which means substantial promotion for Mr Curteis. Mr Curteis is an ,cld resident o£ Taranaki, taking up his residence in the province in 1904, when he was in charge of the Mokoia Model School, under the Wanganui Education Board. • He has taken a prominent part in the affairs of the Educational Institute, being president of the Taranaki branch for many years. He has also been prominent in sport, especially hockey, and for two years he has been organiser for the Primary School Rugby Union, doing splendid work for that body. Mr Curteis is, further, well known as a bowler, being a keen player.