PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17078, 4 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Peter Mouat, of the Gonville Fire Brigade, slapped while boarding a train at Wellington last Sunday, and fractured *« right leg. He was removed to the AVelliiigton Hospital -• A long meeting of Cabinet on Saturday enabled Ministers to dispose of arrears of Departmental business. They will meet on Monday to discuss the early closing of hotels, which will be effected I by an amendment of the War Ee^ula- i tions Act. They will also consider the position of the National Efficiency Board. * "

The 'Bishop of Wellington has appointed the Rev. Herbert Walk*, of Jiketahuna, to be Vicar of Opunake m succession to the Rev. 0. M. Stent' who has been appointed to the Eastbourne Parochial District. Mr. Walk'e was formerly a student of Queen's College, .Birmingham, and in 1906 was ordained by the Bishop of Worcester to a curacy in Shropshire. He lias ministered at Eketahuna for nearly ei^ht years. ■'.*»■■■

nr At r lf glewood on Thursday afternoon, Mr Joiinstone, one of the agricultural instructors under the Taranaki Education Board, who is shortly going into camp was presented by Ur T. Drake, on behalf of the orchard class, with a smoker's outfit. Afternoon tea was provided by Mrs. E. King, a member or the ciass, whose husband is at the tront. .

Mr H. Spratt, who has been director of the Hawera Dairy Company for the past 20 years, having been chairman for several years past, has resigned, from the directorate owing to illhealth. It. was unanimously decided at the annual meeting to present him with an illuminated address setting forth the valuable services he-had rendered to the company. The chairman stated that he was one of the first who started the factory 22 y,e'ars a^o, and was the last of the original shareholders to retire. He had always done his best in its interests, and, although retiring, would-.always be willing to give any assistance he could.