CALIFORNIAN BAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 8

CALIFORNIAN BAR

NEW ZEALANDER'S POST

A former New Zealander, Mr. Alan If. Aldwell, who is now an attorney in San Francisco, has been appointed executive secretary of the State ■ Bar of California.

Mr. Aldwell was born in Wellington 30 years ago and is the only son of 'the late Captain Basil Aldwell, who ■became popular with thousands of travellers 'while he was captain of many Union Company ships, including the Tahiti. Mr. Aldwell received his primary education at Catholic schools in Wellington and about 1921 went to Sydney, where he gained his secondary education. About 1927 he went to San Francisco, where he has lived ever since. He received his legal trainIng there, after completing his academic studies at the University of San Francisco. For the past two years he has been employed by the State Bar as secretary to the Committee on Administration of Justice.

His mother, Mrs. M. Aldwell, is with him in San Francisco.

WOMAN DEAD AT CLIFF FOOT

(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day

Reported missing from her home early yesterday afternoon, Mrs. A. Gillespie, aged 68, wife of Mr. David Gillespie, New Plymouth, was found by relatives later in the day lying dead at the foot of the Woolcombe Terrace sea cliff. •

Although inquiries are still being made there is little evidence to indicate how Mrs. Gillespie came to fall down the cliff, unless it was by accident. It is known that she was recovering from the effects of a severe attack of influenza, and for this reason alarm was felt when her unexplained absence from home was first noticed.