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The King has granted the use of a suite of apartment at Hampton Court Palace to Lady Shackleton,
Miss E. Carrington, an English art teacher, has been appointed as ait mistress of the Napier Girls' High School.
Cabled advice has been received in Sydney of the death at Nice of Mr. George Hudson, head of a largo timber milling firm of Sydney.
Miss M. E. Peacock, M.A., of London. has been appointed an assistant on the staff of the Napier Girls’ High School,
Wanganui papers ynote the death early in the week, alter a very brief illness, of Miss lons, a life-long resident of Waverley.
The death is announced by London cable of Sir Francis William Lowe. The well-known tennis player, Gordon Lowe, succeeds to the baronetcy.
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to Thomas Mann, the well-known German author, states a Stockholm cable.
Mrs. H. M. Payne; commercial teacher at the Girls’ High School, tendered her resignation to the Napier High School Board last evening. The resignation was accepted.
A Wanganui exchange announces the death at the Patea Hospital, in his 32nd. year, of Mr. Percival James Wybourne, a well known Taranaki sheepfarmer.
Mr. Eric Rice, assistant secretary of the Overseas League, who is visiting branches in Australia and New Zealand, arrived at Fremantle on the Oronsay yesterday.
Sir Henry Holt, of the household of Lord Fitzalan durihg his ViceRoyalty of Ireland, reached Fremantle yesterday en route to New Zealand on holiday.
A report from Toronto states that the Canadian Minister of Finance, the Hon. J. A. Robb, died there on Monday, after several weeks of illness from pneumonia. He was 70 years of age.
Major G. A. Cowper, chief pilot and instructor to the Auckland Aero Club, has resigned in order to take up a similar position with Hamilton Airways Limited. His resignation has been accepted by the club, and takes effect next. Monday.
Commissioner Cunningham, the new head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, is expected to visit Hastings about the second Sunday in December when he will open the new Salvation Army Barracks, the erection of which is now making satisfactory progress.
Archdeacon F. G. Evans has resigned ths Archdeaconship of Taranaki on account of ill-health. He became vicar of St. Maiy’s, New Plymouth, in 1896 and was appointed Archdeacon in 1912. This decision was announced at a meeting of the Archdeaconry Board yesterday.
Cable advice was received in Aucklandh yesterday that the Rev. Robert Robertson Greenwood, who was Presbyterian minister at Papakura for five years, had died in America. He had resigned following a heart attack and left Wellington for San Francisco a month ago.
It was announced last night that the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) had spent quite a good day after a somewhat restless night. Amongst those who visited Sir Joseph yesterday were the new High Commissioner (the Hon. T. M. Wilford), the Minister of Native Affairs (the Hon, Sir Apirana Ngata) and several members of Parliament. Announcement appears in an Auckland exchange of the death there last Monday of Mrs. Ellen Hope-Lewis, widow of the late Dr. Thomas HopeLewis, a well known practitioner in the northern city. The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. F. D. Fenton, for many years Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and was the mother of Mrs. Guv Williams, who at various times has held the ladies’ golf championship for the Dominion.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 282, 13 November 1929, Page 6
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