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Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1930, Page 8

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Mr. H. B. Lepper was yesterday reelected chairman of directors of the Lepperton Dairy' Company. t Mr. J. H. McKenzie, general secretary of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association, left New Plymouth folChristchurch yesterday morning.. New York reports the death at Buffalo of Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer, who died on Wednesday follow* ing a recent operation for appendicitis, Mr. Sydney F. T. Bridges has been appointed by the board of the Auatralian Mutual Provident Society to succeed Mr. L. H. Appcrly as general manager, says a London message. Guests at the Criterion, New. Plymouth, include Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Todd, Wellington, Mr. K. V. Parker, Palmerston North, Mr. D. Blake, Wellington, and Mr. El Tremaine, Wanganui. Mr. W. Wakefield, who was to have captained the British football team which is now touring the Dominion, but could not come owing to an injury, has announced his definite retirement from the game, says a London cablegram. Mr. ' George Maxwell Richardson, a New Zealander, has been awarded a Beit Fellowship, tenable for two years at the Imperial College of Science, London reports. The value of the fellowship is £250 per annum and is for research into the application of electrometric methods in biological problems. Mr. J.,P. Hawke, headmaster of the Balclutha primary school, has been ap* pointed an inspector of the Taranaki Education Board, with headquarters, at New Plymouth, and will leave Balclutha for New Plymouth in the course of a few weeks.