PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 76, 9 March 1931, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. E. H. Newland left by motor for Hunterville on Saturday oh a holiday visit. Dr. M. H. Watt, Deputy-Director of Health, succeeds Dr. Valintine as Director-General. Mr. and Mrs. Allan have returned from an extended holiday m the north. Mr. Justice Frazer and Mr. A. L. Monteith, of tiie Arbitration Court, which sat in New Plymouth on Saturday, left for Wellington to-day on a sitting of the court There to-morrow. With the record of having missed only one week in a service car of over 45 years under the Auckland Education Board, Mr. F. Murphy, headmaster of the Parnell School, is to retire at the end of the month. The sudden death of Mr. J. M. Hammersley, of Kaponga, which took place on Thursday last, removes from Taranaki a young man who was well known in Rugby football circles, not only in this province but throughout the Dominion, for he had played for Kaponga for many years and also for Tukapa, and had been a Taranaki representative forward in 1923. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends and fellow-sportsmen of the deceased will be extended to his relatives in the bereavement they have suffered.