PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A telegram from Auckland states that the Professorial Board of the University will nominate Mr. P. O. Veale as a candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship. A cable from Copenhagen says it is anticipated that the Nobel literary prize will be awarded to Mr. Thomas Hardy, the distinguished English novelist. The Canterbury College Students’ Association had nominated Mr. D. H. Black, a member of the physics classes at Canterbury College, as next New Zealand Rhodes scholar. —Press Association. Tributes to the late Mr. James Clarke, of New Plymouth, were paid at the annual dinner of the Taranaki Land Agents’ Association at Stratford on Wednesday night. Mr. J. W. McMillan, referring to Mr. James Clarke, said he first organised the Taranaki land and estate agents, and his great personality had established the association. Mr. Clarke had set a very high standard. Mr. A. Robertson (Stratford), said that tile land agents of to-day owed a debt to the late Mr. Clarke. Within twelve months he had started and had established the association on a firm footing,

and he had been very ably assisted by the present secretary of the association, Mr. E. L. Humphries. Mr. L. A. Nolan (New Plymouth) said he could safely sav that those in New Plymouth had looked up to Mr. Clarke, and the work he did in forming the association.