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Air. Leonard S. Monk, personal representative of Air. Allan Wilkie, is visiting New Plymouth to prepare for Air. Wilkie’s appearances on August 16 and 11.
Air. O. W. Sole, who has been a member of the committee of the Taranaki Jockey Club continuously for 25 yeais but <Lid not seek re-election this year, was last night unanimously elected a life member of the club.
The annual meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club at New Plymouth last night made reference to the loss sustained by the deaths of Alessrs. A. W. Budge, Stratford, and A. AIcL Thomson, New Plymouth, both life members and formerly officials of the club.
The death has occurred at Auckland of Air. Albert James Alorton, at the age of 71 years. Air. Alorton was born in South Australia, and while a boy l:e came to New Zealand with his parents, hie father, the Rev. Robert Alorton, being Baptist minister at Christchurch. He took up teaching, and after experience at Christchurch, Napier and Woodville was appointed education inspector for the Westland district. He carried out these duties for 22 years, having to travel as far as 500 miles a niontn on horseback in visiting outlying schools. When secretary and chief inspector of the West Coast Mr. Alorton was transferred to Taranaki and resided at New Plymouth for over four years before ■being superannuated in 1918. He had rc- ' sided in Auckland for the last ,12 years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1931, Page 6
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