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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1928, Page 12

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The latest medical bulletin statce that Sir Charles Skerrett’o condition ie considered satisfactory. Mr. Shelton, who succeeds Mr. B. E. 8. Brodie as chief postmaster, arrived in New Plymouth last night. Mr. E. Caradus, secondary school inspector for tho Department of Education, is visiting New Plymouth. The New Plymouth harbourmaster, Captain W. Waller, is at present .indisposed, and Lis duties are being taken over for a few days by Captain Mclntyre. Sir Philip Chetwode, who ie to relieve Lieutenant-General Skeen on October 29 as chief of the General Staff at Delhi, will leave London this week, states a wireless message. A vote of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. J. McCluggage was passed at last night's meeting of the Real Estate Institute of Taranaki, the members standing in silence. Reports from San Francisco state tint Sir Austen Chamberlain, who, with Lady Chamberlain, undertook a long health cruise via Panama Canal to California, has greatly benefited by the change and his health is now almost completely restored, states a British official wireless message. Ho. will commence his homeward journey towards the end of the month and is due at Victoria (British Columbia) on October 29 and at Vancouver on .October 31. He will break his journey across Canada at Banff and Toronto, and is due on November 9 at Ottawa, where he will stay for some days. After spending one day at Montreal he will continue his journey to Quebec from which city he will sail for England on November 15. Mr. A. B. Cochran, M.A. (N.Z.), B.A. (Oxon.), has been appointed lecturer in English at Victoria University College. He has had a distinguished record as a student of Auckland University College. Ho started his career there as an entrance scholar, and subsequently won the senior university scholarsrip in English, while qualifying also for that in French. He graduated M.A., with first-class honours in English and French, in 1924. In 1925 Jie was awarded a post-graduate scholarship in arts and proceeded to Oxford, where he continued his studies in English language and literature, graduating B.A. with high second-class honours. Mr. Coehran has only recently returned to New Zealand after spending two years at Oxford.