PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 12 August 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL

■■•ir ■ i Mr B. Briggs left for Auckland , by car yesterday morning. j 1 Mr J. McLeod), manager of the All ] Black Bugby team which recently visited Australia, returned to New Plymouth last night by service car from Wellington. Mr Henry SVtmi d.° Mans, a ‘►inner resident of Christchurch and a wellknown cricketqr, died suddenly at Suva, Fiji, last month, aged 57 years, He leaves a widow and a son and daughter. Mr TV illiam Kilpatrick, representative, of the National Daily Association at Palmerston North, has been appointed manager of the Association s branch at New Plymouth, and mill take npi his duties shortly. At a. meeting of the x nilosoptiical Institute of Canterbury in Christchurch on Wednesday night, Dr. Leonard) Cockayne was presented with the Darwin Medal, deemed one of the greatest of honours which can be bestowed upon a scientist. Dr. Cockayne has acquired wide fame for his botanical researches.

Lieutenant-Commander Robbe, of the French cruiser Tourville now at Wellington, accompanied by Captain .Jomqnieres and j( Le Pnth, visited Dawson -Falls mountain house during the week-end as the guest of Mr L. 0. Hooker, of Hawera. On arrival of the mail train on Saturday they were met by a mini, her of representative citizens and given ai warm welcome to the district. Lieutenant-Commander Robbe visited north Taranaki yesterday and was shown some of the beauty spots of New Plymouth by Mr Hooker The party spent last evening at Dawson Falls and! return to AVeTnngton today. The warship sails for Queensland on Friday.

A very olcT resident or jAtbam, in the person of Mr G. W. Taylor, dieo. as the Hawera Hospital yesterday morning at the age of 72. Mr Taylor wa s closely associated! with the development of Eltham, having commenced business ~ there, forty years ago. five years after coming to Taranaki. He was elected the first Mayor of Eltham in 1901, and had continuously v represented) the borough either ais Mayor or Councillor. The late Mr Taylor represented Eltham on Hawera Hospital Board for twenty years and for l a- donsidtertible thru* on the Harbour Beard. He was of a genial and: kindly disposition and was popnlnV wi+h all classes of the community. He is survived hy a widow, two tsons and a daughter. His eldest son was killed on active service on Gallipoli.