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Madame Mclba-’s English estate was valued at £43,055, states a London cable.
Mr. K. S. Williams, M.P., Bay of Plenty, was granted three days’ leave of absence by the House of Representatives on account.-of illness in, his family. . ;i
Messrs W. Crawford, Fitzroy, and 0. Crawford, Okaiawa, left for Auckland yesterday morning to attend the .funeral of their brother, the late Captain R. Crawford, late of the Aorangi. .
The Duke of Gloucester had -a good night and is making most satisfactory progress; no 'further bulletins will be. published at present, states a London message. The King visited the Duke at the nursing home on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Gordon Bryan, the examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, will arrive in New Plymouth from Te Kuiti to-morrow and will commence examinations on Saturday morning.
Mr. Justice Frazer and Mr. W. Cecil Prime (employers’ representative), arrived at New Plymouth from Hamilton yesterday, and Mr. A. L. Monteith, (employees’ representative) arrived last night for the session of the Arbitration Court. All are staying at the Imperial. News of several old boys of the Plymouth High School .vho have with distinguished scholastic sucbes< in Britain and abroad is brought to New . Plymouth by Dr. D. Denny Brown, who is at present visiting New Plymouth. Ron Syme, of Eltham, after a meteoric career in classics at Oxford, has obtained a classical fellowfuip at Trinity College, Oxford, a position that was much°fc-ought by the scholars. He is apparently meeting with considerable success as a tutor. Monte Barak, of Rahotu, who went to England with a Rhodes Scholarship, made splendid progress at the university, and three years ago went to an appointment . at Princeton University, U.S.A., since when Dr. Denny-Brown has not heard of him. Ken Roberts, or Inglewood, has ‘a chemistry appointment at London University. Recently, however, he sustained a very sad blow in the death of his wife-
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1931, Page 8
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