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Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1931, Page 6

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The Hon. S. G. Smith, Minister of Labour, and the Hon. R. Masters, M.L.C., attended the Taranaki-Auckland Rugby match at New Plymouth on Saturday.

The King has appointed Colonel F. Symon, of the Royal New Zealand Artillery, additional aide-de-camp, states a London cable.

Mr. A. J. Gibbs has been appointed by the Governor-General to be representative of Patea county on the goutli Taranaki Power Board.

Mr. C. H. Burgess, New Plymouth, will leave Britain by the Rangitikei.at the end of this month and will arrive in New Zealand early in October. Mr. H. Rothery, ex-Mayor of Te Kuiti and a former Taranaki representative Rugby player, was a visitor to New Plymouth for the match against Auckland on Saturday. Mr. C. F. A. Waters will leave New Plymouth by this morning’s mail train for Wellington to attend a conference of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association.

Mr. Fred. W. Court, of Selwyn Street, Onehunga, on Thursday celebrated his ninety-first birthday. He was the founder of two of the largest drapery establishments in Auckland.

Sir Henry C. Buckingham, member ot the House of Commons for Guilford since 1922, has died, states an Australian Press Association cable from London. Sir Henry was sheriff of London in 19H. The Rev, Father Trehey, Opunake, is at present an inmate of a private hospital in New Plymouth, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis. His condition is satisfactory. The doctors in attendance on Mr. Lloyd George are said to be entirely pleased with his condition and their hopes for his steady progress are high, states a wireless message from Britain.

The death of Major Dudley Alexander, aged 68 years, is reported from London. •- Major Dudley was a nephew of Earl Ranfurly, and acted as his private secretary when he was Governor of New Zealand, from 1897 to 1904. The Rev. Professor W. Hewitson, master of Knox College, Dunedin, and exModerator of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, who visited New Plymouth to lay the foundation stone of the new Presbyterian Church on Saturday, will return to Dunedin to-morrow. M. Briand, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has lately been suffering great fatigue, has been ordered by his doctors to take a month’s rest, states a Press cable. He has gone to his country home in Normandy. He has been forbidden to smoke.

Dr. H. K. Cdrkill, who has had medical experience in three countries, has been appointed port medical officer at Wellington in succession to the late Dr. McLean. Since Dr. McLean’s death Dr. Robert Stout has been acting as port health officer. Dr. Corkill is a son of Mr. T. E. Corkill, who.prior to his,retirement was assistant-general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, and is a .■hrothei’ of Dr. T. F. Corkill,

With his 101st birthday falling tills month, Mr. Georgo Anderson claims-to be one of the oldest gold miners in New Zealand, if not in the. British Empire. He was born on August 22, 1830, and arrived in New Zealand from Melbourne in the ship. Cygnet in 1864. He was gold mining at Kumara for many years, and was an inmate of the Old People’s Home at- Greymouth, moving later to the Old People’s Home at Hokitika, where he now fives.

The tragic death of the late Mr. Evan McGregor, at the Rangitikei Hunt Club’s Point’to-Point Steeplechases on Wednesday, when he received fatal injuries whilst riding Glamis in the Members’ Steeplechase, cast a gloom over L the whole of the Rangitikei district, he having resided in the Turakina Valley for his full life of sixty?one years. He was a member of the Rangitikei County Council from January 14, 1905, to November 1, 1905, and for many years, up to his death, an elder of the Presbyterian Church in Turakina, a member of the Rangitikei Hunt Club for a number of ypars, and a .keen follower of the hounds. His late father, Mr. James McGregor, was one of the earliest settlers of the Turakina Valley, and Mr. Evaij McGregor had carried on the farm. His widow (a daughter of the late Rev.. Ross) and ten children survive ?■ The death occurred suddenly on Friday at Wanganui of Mr. C. H. Warden, at the age of 61. He was well knoiyn at Wanganui as the president of the Wanganui Metropolitan Rugby Union, member of the council of the Wanganui Rugby Union, and vice-president of the New Zealand Rugby Union. He ranked high in his profession of school teacher, and was headmaster of the Wanganui East School. Born in Otago, wheie he played Rugby at Dunedin for Pirates, he later held a position with the Wanganui Education Board at. Palmerston North and went to Wanganui to take over the headmastership of the Aramoho fecliool, from which he moved to Queen’s Park School and then .to Wanganui East School. Mr. Warden was a keen Mason, being Past Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of the English constitution and Past Master of the United Manawatu Lodge. He was also prominent on many local committees and bodies.