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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1928, Page 8

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Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Treadwell, Wanganui, are staying in New Plymouth. Mr. J. F. Mackley, of Auckland, locomotive engineer for the North Island railways, is on a short visit to New Plymouth. The death of Mr. F. W. H. Brinsden, aged 60, a member of the Auckland City Council, is reported in a Press Association message. Sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. Murdoch Fraser was expressed at meetings of the Taranaki Hunt Club and Taranaki Jockey Club. General Sir Alexander Godley will leave England for Gibraltar on Friday to take up his duties next week as Governor, reports a wireless message from Rugby. A London cablegram said that Mr. W. H. Coats left £1,305,000, on whicii the duty amounts to £409,000. He was th© ninth member of the family to die a millionaire. Sir Philip Chetwode, who is to relieve Lieutenant-General Skeen on October 20 as chief of the General Staff at Delhi, will leave London this week, states a wireless message. Recognition of the appointment as consular agent for the United States of Mr. H. 11. F. Ballantyne, vice Mr. 11. P. Bridge, who has retired, at Christchurch, was gazetted last night, says a Wellington Press Association message. In apologising for the absence of Mr. Gordon Fraser at the quarterly meeting of the Egmont National Park Board yesterday, the chairman (Mr. T. C. List) said the late Mr. Murdoch Fraser had done a great deal in the service of this community and for the Dominion as a whole. The loss to the country through his death would be keenly felt. The meeting showed its sympathy with Mr. G. Fraser in the usual manner.