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Evening Star, Issue 17764, 12 September 1921, Page 5

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Air 11. L. Tapley has been appointed by the Government to fill the vacancy on tho South Dunedin Licensing Committee caused by the resignation of Mr E. H. Lough. Mr A. APLcod, postmaster, Winton, wn! retire shortly after forty-two years in the department. Mrs Peryman, of Carterton, has -boon elected to the seat on the executive of the New Zealand Alliance rendered vacant by the death of Mrs A. R. Atkinson. Mr g. G. Daniel, postmaster at Hastings, will go on leave at the end of this month prior to retiring from the service. Ho joined the Post and Telegraph Department at Queenstown in 1800, and afterwards was stationed at Dunedin, Invercargill. Gore, Ashburton. Christchurch, Sydenham, Jtangiora. Hawcra, and Hastings. lie will have completed forty-one vears’ service by next December. The death has taken place at Now Plvmouth of the Rev. William Cannell. probably the oldest Methodist minister in New Zealand. He was eighty-five, and had retired from the active ministry fdflHho past twenty-one years. He began his church work at Now Plymouth in 1361 with the Rev. John Whitely. who was afterwards murdered by the Maoris, In 1864 he removed to Kaiapoi, being the first Methodist minister appointed- there. In 1866 he wont to Hokitika. Ho. loaves a large family, the members of which reside in the North Island. Bv tho Corinthic, due at Wellington on Thursday, there will arrive the Rev. William Jellie, 8.A., first pastor of the Auckland Unitarian Church, and Mrs Jellie and family. During his residence in England Air*Jellie has had charge of the Southport Unitarian Church, which he recently resigned for reasons of health. He is r-etmiiihg to New Zealand to recuperate

In recording the fact that, after a period of some twenty years in New Zealand and interprovincial cricket, Mr D. Reese has announced his -retirement from internrovinoial cricket, the annual report, of the Canterbury Cricket Association skates that t-ha association wished to place on record its. keenest .of Mr Reese’s services to/% Aerbury cricket, both as a player and as an official. Ho had spared no ‘effort to assist the game in every department. and much of the success of later years of Canterbury cricket bad been due to Air Reese’s leadership and counsel.

Mr W. Ct, A tack, secretary to the New Zealand Boxing Association, will accompany the Dominion team to Sydney as manager., A Nelson telegram reports the death in England of Mr Joseph Jfcnry Cock, managing director of J. H. Cock and Co., "Nelson, Wanganui, and New Plymouth, managing director of the Anchor Shipping Foundry Company, one of tho founders of the Nelson School of Music, and a leading citizen of the town for many years. The deceased gave £2,0-00 to the" Returned Soldiers’ Club. He was a generous giver, the worthy objects including assisting promising musical' pupils with tuition abroad.