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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1930, Page 6

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Mr. Eric Ltaland has left' Sydney , for England.

The death of. Tilrs. Charles H. Fox occurred at tlie New Plymouth hospital on Saturday morning. She had been in the hospital for five weeks.

Visitors at' the Criterion HoteJ, New Plymouth, include Messrs. T. Bowie and A. W. Smith (Auckland), Rylands, Drysdale, Moult and Devine (Wellington).

A presentation was made to Savage H. Johnson at Saturday night’s _ korero as an appreciation of his services as secretary to the New Plymouth Savage Club during the past three years.. The presentation- was made by Chief Savage Gilmore Smith. At the conclusion of the programme on Saturday night the chief rangitira of the Wellington Savage Club, Sir Alexander Roberts, was made an honorary member of the New Plymouth club and presented with a badge of membership as a memento of his visit to Taranaki with his tribe.

Mr. J. J. O’Shea, stationmaster at Palmerston North, will retire early next month .after 40 years’ service in the Railway Department, during the last eight of which he was in charge of the Palmerston North station, states- a Press Association message. Mr. O’Shea joined the service as a cadet at Christchurch in 1890 and since then lias been stationed, in many parts of the North Island, including Eltham, Marton, New Plymouth, Stratford, Wanganui, Patca and Hamilton. Mr. O’Shea was senior stationmaster in New Zealand.