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Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1920, Page 4

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Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., was a passenger from Wellington by the mail train yesterday. The Hon. W. L. Carncross, M.L.C., Journeyed to Wellington by tlie mail train yesterday morning. Mr. P. .T, H. White returned to New Plymouth by the mail train last night trom Wellington. Sir Arnold Gridley is leaving Wellington for Auckland to-day in order to join the Riverina, sailing for Sydney tomorrow. A vote of condolence with Mr. C. G. Bottrill, in his recent bereavement through the death of his father, was passed by the New Plymouth Old Boys' Cricket Club at their annual meeting yesterday. Mr. T.. L. Woods, who has been manager of tile Blenheim branch of the Bank of New Zealand since lflOli, will retire on superannuation at the end of this month after 40 years' service, during 28 of which he has been a manager. An old colonist, Mr. Albert Eaton, died at his residence, Auckland, on Friday at the age of 80. Mr. Eaton came to Auckland from Nova Scotia in ISSD in the ship George Henderson, owned by his father. He was in business as a merchant in Queen Street for many years as a member of the firm of Eaton and de Wolfe. He served for five years as a volunteer in the Maori war. News was received in Eltham on Monday of the death of Mr. James Attrill, eldest son of Mrs. Attrill, of Julian Street (says the Argus). The deceased joined tlie New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the early stages of the war, and returned only about a year ago, suffering somewhat severely from the effects of gas. As he was not making any progress he was subsequently sent to the Auckland military hospital, where he succumbed on Sunday. Two ex-Aucklanders, Messrs. H. L. Massey and A. P. Morgan, have been appointed architects to the Hanworth Public Utility Society, Limited, of London The society proposes to build 3000 houses on the Hanworth Park garden suburb property, 1000 to cost approximately £1250 each, and 2000 approximately £950 er.ch. Messrs. Massey and Morgan were recently awarded the Diily Mail prize for designs for ideal homes.