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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1930, Page 10

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Messrs. A. R. and W. S. Lewis, New York, are visiting New Plymouth. They are staying at the Criterion. Mr. C. 0. Coad, business manager of tin Post and Telegraph Department, is visiting New Plymouth. Miss L. 0. Mitchell, of the Church Missionary Society in Bengal, India, is a visitor to New Plymouth. Mr. A. H. P. Moline, general manager of Taranaki (N.Z.) Oil Felds, Ltd., has been visiting New Plymouth, and returned to the East Coast yesterday. The Bishop of Wellington, the Right Rev. T. H. Sprott, D.D., acting Primate, will leave New Plymouth to-day after having held two confirmations at St. Mary’s. Sympathy with the relatives of the late Dr. Clare and the late Mies E. Corney, both of New Plymouth, was expressed at the annual meeting of the Frankleigh Park Horticultural Society last night. The Governor-General and . Lady Bledisloe arrived at Christchurch from the north yesterday morning. They will attend the Canterbury Jockey Club’s races to-day and the trots on Friday. They will return on Saturday evening. Air Vice-Marshal Dowding, now air officer commanding rhe fighting area of the air defence of Great Britain, has been appointed member for supply and research on the Air Council in place of Air Marshal Sir John Higgins, who has been placed on the retired list at his own request, states the British Official Wireless. Guests at Hotel Imperial, New Plymouth, include Mr. G. F. Tanner (Wellington), Mr. D. McClymont (Wanganui), Mr. C. Stewart (Wellington), Mr. 0. Svensen (Wanganui), Mr. C. M. Thrana (Auckland), Mr. M. Brabet (Napier), . Mr. S. R. Crathers (Wellington), Mr. J. Davis (Auckland), and Mr. H. S. Beare (Auckland). An early settler in New Zealand, Mr. J. J. Cooper, celebrated his 90th birthday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. S. Bickers, Tauranga, on Saturday. Mr. Cooper was born at Cromer, Norfolk, in 1840, and arrived at Auckland in 1864 on the ship Ironsides. Shortly afterwards he joined the Government vessel Gundagai, under Captain Fairchild, which carried stores for the troops engaged in the Maori wars. Leaving the sea after some years, Mr. Cooper went to the Otago goldfields, working on the Arrow River. Later he took up farming at Pakuranga, and, on the death of his wife, he removed to Onehunga, where he resided until recently. Mr. Cooper has four daughters, one of whom is Mrs. H. Weston, of Uruti.