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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1930, Page 10

PERSONAL

Air. W. H. Moyes, principal of the New Plymouth Boys’ High Schoo), is, indisposed. ' A London message says that Air. J’, Platts Alills, New Zealand Rhodei Scholar, passed in jurisprudence witfi first-class honours at Oxford Mr. C. E. Wells was .yesterday reelected chairman of directors ■. of tho Warea Dairy Company, a position lie has held for eight years. Among th© guests at the Hotel Imperial, New Plymouth, are Messrs;.'Ron Paul, F. J. Johansen, Wellington/ W. Alaule, Wellington, V. Illingworth,. Wa» nganui, T. Lovegrove, Wanganui,, and G. Beckett, Australia. '

Staying at the Criterion; New Ply# mouth, are Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tibbett, Auckland, Mr. J. McDonald, Wellington* Mr. L. J. Clark, Wellington, Mr. A. Dk Shaw, Wellington, Mr. W. C. Brown, Stratford, and Mr. T, A. Christie, Wa> nganui. The death occurred at Stratford on Monday of Mr. Arthur John Hill,.'who was born at Bell Block 66 years'!ago and who had resided in Taranaki Ul9, whole of his life. His father, who saw f service in India and the Crimea, camp' to New Plymouth with the 57th Regli ment and was stationed at Bell Block at the time of Mr. Hill’s birth, and it believed that he was the first child of. an Imperial soldier born in the New, Plymouth district. He could remember, incidents of the Maori War in Tara* naki, and told how his mother refused move from Bell Block to New Plymouth, when the Maoris were expected to make trouble. Mr. Hill took up the work of. the pioneer at an early age, and wheit he was 14 (in 1878) he drove a bullock team through the site of the town of Stratford before the bush had beeil felled. As a member of the Armed Con* stabulary, he took part in the opciy tions leading to the capture of Te Whiti at Parihaka. Mr. Hill is sur*. vived by Mrs. Hill, six sons . (Roy, Len, Rga, Arthur and Lawrence, Stratford, and Sidney (New Plymouth), and two daughters (Mrs. A. Milner, Stratford, and Mrs. T. R. Angus, Gordon Road).