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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1931, Page 8

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Mr. L. Cocker, Government poultry expert, is visiting New Plymouth. Mr. E. G. Baylies has been re-elected chairman of directors of the Opunake Co-operative Dairy Company for the fourth year.

Mr. Edward Dyson, poet, author and journalist, died at St. Kilda, Meloouine, yesterday, states a cable. His age was sixty-six. He was also a noted cartoonist.

Lord Stanley of Aldcrley, who succeeded his father in the baronetcy ,six years ago, died at his London home on Saturday at the age of 56. . His 23-year-old son succeeds to the title.

The Duke of Gloucester’s operation for appendicitis was successful and his condition is satisfactory, says a London cable. A bulletin issued- was signed by the surgeon, Mr. Ernest Charles Lindsay.

Sir William Watcrlow, formerly Lord Mayor of London, who died recently at the age of 60, left £58,000. Sir William’s firm recently had to pay about £300,000 for printing Portuguese bank notes, which turned out to have been ordered by a very skilful swindler.

Messrs Rigby Allan, W. Groombridge, R. Whitwell and Mi« Kuby Sole (Ncw Plymouth), Messrs R. Syme, J. W. 1 aimer and Miss Mona Batchelor (Hawera) are visitors to the Chateau Tonganro for the Ruapehu Ski Club s annual excursion and winter sports meeting.

The death is reported of Mr. Theo. Marples, F.Z.S., of Manchester, editor and founder of “Our Dogs.” Death was the result of a motor accident. Mr. Marples, who was 84 years of age, was recognised as one of the world’s greatest judges of dogs. He was born in Baslow, Derbyshire, in IS4B, the son of a Nonconformist minister, and he carved out a career for himself as a breeder and exhibitor of several breeds of dogs. ’His services as judge were in demand not >oh!ly ■ all over Europe, but iri the United States and South Africa also.