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Lord Jellicoe has succeeded Lord Meath as president of the Empire Day movement, says a London cable. Mr. H. Greenway has returned to New Zealand and is the guest of his sister, Mrs. W. B, Hoskins, Waitara. Sir Joseph Ward is steadily improving, having had a good restful night, says a Rotorua niesage. Mr. Vincent Ward left for Wellington on Thursday night. The King and Queen left Buckingham Palace on Thursday afternoon for Sandringham, where tho Court will spend Whitsuntide. " Dr. Gilbert Maclean, superintendent of the Waipukurau Sanatorium, and Mrs. Maclean are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. McNeill, Ridge Lane, New Plymouth. Mr. John McQueen, manager, of tho Union Bank of Australia, Dunedin, announces his early retirement from tho bank, in the service of which he has completed 41 years. The death has'occurred of one of . tho best known settlers in the Waikato, Mr. William Vesper, Pukekura, Cambridge, aged 79. Mr. Vosper chme to New Zealand from Cornwall about 1880. The Rev. J. Boothroyd, who rendered service at Stratford during the illness 1 of the Rev. H. L. Blaniires, has been appointed to St. Aubyn Methodist Church, New Plymouth, in succession to tho. Rev. G. S. Cook, and arrives by express to-day to- take up liis duties. Mr; F. de Jongh, who recently left New Plymouth to take the position of chief inspector for the Colonial Mutual Life at Auckland, has been transferred to the Queensland branch of the society. Mr. and Mrs. de Jongh and family sailed this week 1 for Sydney, enroute io Brisbane. The death has occurred of Mr. George Lemuel Wasley Davies, at the age of 63 years. Mr. Davies was born in Gloucestershire, and when nine years of age accompanied his parents to New, Zealand, landing at Wellington. The family resided for some year at Rangiora, and then moved to Otakeho, Taranaki. Mr. Davies Was in business at Opunake for 18 years. He moved to Tauranga 25 years ago and had since lived there. Uo is survived by a widow and a family of eight sons and three daughters.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1930, Page 8
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