PERSONAL

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11974, 18 September 1906, Page 3

PERSONAL

Mr Percy Suisted, who left Wanganui about eight years ago as an apprentice on the barque Weathersfield, which was engaged in the Home trade, and who is now third officer of the New Zealand Shipping Coy.'s steamer Rimutaka, is at present on a visit to his parents in Wanganui. Mr Suisted, during his absence from Wanganui, has, on different vessels, visited most of the noted ports of the world. Mr Suisted joins the vessel again on Monday next, leaving Wellington for London on the following Thursday. Among the forty-seven candidates who presented themselves for the very stiff examination for commissions in the Indian Medical Service in August, says a London correspondent, was Mr William Malcolm Thomson, M.A., M.8., B.Ch. of Otago University, who made 3026 marks out of a possible aggregate of 5100. The subjects of examination were medicine and therapeutics, surgery and eye diseases, pathology and bacteriology, surgical anatomy, physiology, midwifery and diseases of women and children, chemistry and materia medica and either botany or zoology. There were only twenty vacancies, and Mr Thomson secured one of them, his position in the list being eighteenth. The hierheat number of marks secured by any candidate was 3879.

The London University has conferred the degree of M.D. upon Mr E. H. B. Milsom,' of New Zealand and Guy's Hostal. Glasgow University has conferred tke degrees of M.8., Ch.B. upon Messrs Henry Howard Christie and Robert Neil Guthrie, of New Zealand.

Mr Ben O'Brien left Waverley by the express train on Saturday, en route for Auckland, to which place he has been transferred on promotion. Mr O'Brien, who has always taken an active part in local societies, will be much missed. As a footballer he was an invaluable help to the Waverley club, in the Debating Society he was an active member, and as a post and, telegraph officer the public speak in high terms of him. Advice was received in Palmerston on Saturday of the death in San Francisco of Mr J. Stevenson, brother of Mr E. Stevenson, of Palmerston. The late Mr Stevenson was formerly a resident of Palmerston.

The Hawera Star says that Mr James Bee, one of the teachers at Wellington College, who has been appointed headmaster of the Ladies' College at Melbourne at a salary of £600, was on one occasion an applicant for a headmastership at Hawera, "but apparently was not considered good enough."

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