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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr E. V. West returned to Palmerston North yesterday after visiting Dunedin in connection with the hangar building activities of Union Airways, Ltd. Mr J. E. Mcllwaine, M.R.C.V.S., has been appointed to the position of Government veterinarian at Palmerston North, in succession to Mr R. H. Meade, who retired a short time ago. Mr Mcllwaine, who was in Palmerston North for a period some six or seven years ago, was formerly stationed at Wellington. Advico of the appointment of Dr. W. S. Rapson, Ph.D., to a position on the staff of the Capetown University has been received in New Zealand’. Dr. Rapson, who is only 23 years of age, is a former student of Auckland University College. He obtained his doctorate at Oxford University last year following two years’ research work in chemistry. Dr. Rapson also took the master of science degree in 1933 with first-class honours in chemistry. An exhibition scholarship provided him with the opportunity of carrying out two years’ research work at Oxford. Captain William Thomas Taylor, after whom Taylor’s Mistake is named, died recently at his home at Kaiapoi, aged 82 years. The sou of one of the earliest settlers in Nelson, Captain Taylor was engaged for many years in the coastal trade, and once mistook the bluff at Taylor’s Mistake for Lyttelton Heads and narrowly avoided running aground. At the age of thirteen Captain Taylor was helping to run freight up and down dangerous West Coast rivers, and, after many adventures gained his master’s certificate and traded between Nelson, Kaiapoi and Lyttelton. In 1901 he went to Wellington, and was in charge of one of the harbour ferries, and later was hulkmaster for the. Wellington Harbour Board. He retired in 1921 after serving for a time as tally clerk to the board. Keenly interested in rowing in his younger days, Captain Taylor was among Canterbury’s leading oarsmen, and rowed in the crew that beat the famous Dolly Varden crew.