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Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 11

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Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Thomson, who have been in Fiji on holiday, are now at New Plymouth. Lieut.-Colonel I. T. Standish, C.M.G., D. 5.0., chief staff officer, Central Command, is visiting New Plymouth. Major-General Oldfield, who has been appointed commanding officer in Malaya, . is a cousin of. the late Mr. Thomas Oldfield, New Plymouth.. .• , ' Captain L. Andrew, V.C., who was ' previously stationed in New Plymouth, ; ? is to be present at the annual dinner of the Taranaki Regiment to-night. Mr. E. J. Carr, who is in the New Plymouth hospital, is improving and his condition is much brighter after a relapse early in the week.

Messrs. Martin Hume and Andrew Hamilton, of Wellington, are visiting New Plymouth in connection with oil matters. . \ Although Lord Birkenhead is no longer as critically ill as he has been, a medical bulletin states that enfeeblement of the heart consequent on pneumonia can be expected to pass only gradually, says a London cable. Mr. and Mrs. A. Ashley (Auckland). Mr. W. A. Knox (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. A. G. MacDonald (Napier),, Mr. J. M. Hume (Wellington) and Mr.,A. Ham ilton (Wellington), are amongst tho guests at the Criterion, New Plymouth. Miss Marion Terry, the English actress, has died at London. She was the .-last of z the' quartette of famous sisters. Although her stage career was always overshadowed to some,extent bj that' of her sister, Ellen, it constituted a 50 years’ record. She had . great successes with all the great actors o her day, Irving, Bancroft, Tree, Alexander and Wyndham. The death of Sir Aston Webb, the architect, is reported from London. He was president of the Architectural Association in 1884 and president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1902 to 1904. Ho designed the new front to Buckingham Palace, the Admiralty Arch, the Britannia Royal Navy College, the completion of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Science; and Technology and the restoration of St. Bartholomew the Great, London.