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Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1929, Page 10

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Mr. J. A. Brailsford, of Hamilton, who has been appointed tutor-organiser fcq the Workers’ Educational Association for the Victoria University College dis-, trict, will be stationed either at Palmerston North or Wanganui. Mr. Brailsford is at present on the literary staff of t'he Waikato Times. The Rev. J. L. Greer, of Auckland, has accepted appointment as chaplain of Samoa for three years, states the Church News. The Rev. A» C. Hob* son, of the diocese of Oxford, who came out for a year to. help Polynesia, and has now returned, has spent the last five months in Samoa and, Bishop Kempthorne says, “has clearly demonstrated the need for a permanent chaplain.” Pandit Durga Parsad, an Indian, from Fiji, who is at present touring New Zea- ’ land, visited New Plymouth on Tuesday. He is studying the conditions in which people live .and work in Australia and. New Zealand. ” The Pandit is secretary of the board of directors of the; Pacific .Press, L/xI., secretary of the Indian Reform League artd president of the Indian Football Association. He left New. Plymouth for Auckland yesterday, morning. , The-Rey. J. W. Jones, a retired. Methodist minister, was found dead in a chair at his residence, Feilding, bn Monday, by.a visiting.minister. He had been'living alone since his. wife died a couple of. years ago.. Deceased, • who was 80 years of age; was a pioneer minister at Feilding. - He took -the services when the original immigrants arrived in 1874, and was then stationad-at Foxton. He was 'always a sturdy battler for prohibition, and president of the local” prohibition league for many years. The death has occurred • of the Rev. Horatio Howlett, a veteran-of the Maori War, and one of the best-knOWn -figures in the Northern Wairoa, at the age of 84. Mr. Howlett was born in Hampwell, Worsfold, England, and came to New Zealand as a young man, joining the Armed Constabulary on arrival. At the conclusion of the Maori War, in which he saw service, he entered the timber trade, and was for. many years a familiar figure in Helensville and the Northern Wairoa. Later-he was in the Public Works Department, from which he . retired sortie years, ago. Mr.. Howlett always took a keen interest in polb tics, and even at the- last campaign followed, the election closely, attending many .'.candidates’ meetings. His w ’^ e him 14 years ago, and he leaves four sons and fiyc daughters.