PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14325, 15 October 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Hugo Gorlitz was in Timaru yesterday. Miss J. B. Reid, 8.A., of the Temuka District High School, has been selected for appointment as secondary assistant in the Hawera School. Mr T. N. Brodrick, Commissioner of Crown Lands, returned to Christehureh on Thursday evening after making an official visit to the Mackenzie Country. Mr. Allan Thomson, who is one of the geologists of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition, went through by the express t'o Dunedin yesterday, with Mrs Thomson and child. Mr Thomson was New Zealand's first Rhodes scholar, having won the scholarship in 1904. Mr G. M. Thomson, M.P., for Dunedin North, is his father. The Hon. T. Y. Duncan, lias assured an Oamaru visitor to Wellington that he will he a candidate for the Oamaru seat at the next election if he is able to stand. It has frequently been stated recently that Sir W. J. Steward and. the Hon. T. Y. Duncan had had seats booked for them in the Upper House, but whatever the bonking may have been we (North Otago Times) can only take Mr Duncan's assurance that if lie is well he will be a candidate against all comers.