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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 25 January 1934, Page 6

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Mr J. McKenzie, director of parks and reserves for the Wellington. City Council, is visiting Palmerston North. Mr E. R. Hodge, architect for the Wanganui Education Board, has now completed twenty years of service with that body. Mr G. A. Green, of Auckland, was yesterday elected by the New Zealand Horticultural Trades Association as Dominion secretary and organiser for the 25th year in succession. Mr P. J. Sefton, headmaster of the Cambridge District High School, has been granted three months’ leave on the expiry of which he will retire from the service on superannuation. The friends of Mr Leonard Portch, of Colyton, an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, will be glad to learn that he is making satisfactory progress after a recent serious operation. Mr Portch underwent the operation as a result of head injuries received when thrown from a horse a fortnight ago. The death is announced from London of Lord Abercouway, the steel, shipbuilding and colliery magnate, at the age of 83. He was a nephew of John Bright, and as Charles Benjamin McLaren, Q.C., M.P., was a prominent Liberal in the ’eighties and one of the founders of the Eighty and National Liberal Clubs. He will be succeeded by his son, Hon. Henry Duncan McLaren.