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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL

Captain Hollis, of Wolliiigton, marine superintendent for the C. and D. Line, is visiting New Plymouth.

The novelist, Donn Byrne, was found dead under his car which overturned near his residence at Cork, states a Dublin cable. The Taranaki Education Board yesterday passed a vote of sympathy with the Rev. Canon J. L. A. Kayll in the death of his mother.

Visitors tq the National Dairy Show at Palmerston yesterday included the Hon. O. J. Hawken, Minister of Agriculture, wires our special reporter. Mr. S. G. Smith has been appointed the representative of the Taranaki Education Board on the newly-constituted New Plymouth High Schools’ Board.

Mr, N. B. Fletcher has been appointed to the Stratford Technical High School Board to represent the Taranaki Education Board, in place of Mr. S. Ward. On the eve of his marriage, Mr. John Jury was presented with a dinner service and a set of jugs by his colleagues on the office staff of Messrs. Newton King, Ltd., at New Plymouth. Among the degrees awarded at Cambridge are those to the New Zealanders Messrs. Kenneth Bloomfield (LL.B.), Kenneth Myers and Donald McGavin (8.A.), states a London cablegram.

Thirty-five years a secretary of a school committee is the record of Mr. M Sattler, of Waitui. He was appointed when the school was erected in 1893. The Taranaki Education Board yesterday recorded its appreciation of Mr. Sattler's long services. Three young New Zealanders will leave for England by the Tainui on July 5 to undergo a course of military training. They are Cadets Wiekstead (Toko) and J. W. Standish, who will go to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and O. C. S. Burton, who goes to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, states a Wellington message.

Colonel W. L. M. Sinclair-Burgess, C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., Chief of the Staff, left for England by the Tamaroa on June 9 to attend the divisional manoeuvres and other exercises of the British Army. Colonel Sinclair-Bur-gess will visit the chief training establishments, military schools and depots. Be will study post-war developments in mechanism, training and equipment. The visit will last about six months altogether.