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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1931, Page 8

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Mt. and Mrs. W. D. Graham left New Plymouth yesterday morning on route to Auckland, where they embark upon a nine weeks’ holiday in Australia. Mr. A. R, Harris, managing director of the Radio Broadcasting Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., who was in New Plymouth for a few days, left on Monday night for Wanganui, Mr. F. W. G. White, M.Sc., a former student of Victoria University College, has been appointed lecturer in physics at King’s College, London. Mr. White has been working in the Cavendish Laboratory under Lord Rutherford. Mr. P. J. Flannagan, New _ Plymouth, was a passenger by the mail train on Monday for Wellington, whence he will leave for Sydney on a two months holiday. He intends to witness the Melbourne Cup race in November. Mr. W. J. Mclndoe, of the goods staff of the New Plymouth railway service, is to retire at the end of this month. He entered the service as a junior at New Plymouth. He was stationed for periods of varying length at Palmerston North aijd Wanganui For the past 11 years he has been at New Plymouth, latterly in the capacity of storeman. Altogether, Mr. Molndoe has had years’ service with the department. Au old resident of Ohaupo, Mr. Daniel Cavanagh, died at Auckland on Saturday, at the age of 83 years, Mr. Cavanagh was born at Howick and fought in the Maori War when 15 years of age. He' settled at Ohaupo over 59 years ago. Mr. Cavanagh took a keen interest in public affairs and was a member of the Waipa County Council and the Auckland, Waikato and Waipa Racing Clubs. He retired and came to live in Auckland six years ago. He is survived by one son and four daughters.

The death has occurred at Mount Maunganui of Mr. Harry Truman Lysaght, at the age of 62 years. Mr. Lysaght was born in Yorkshire and when five years old came to New Zealand with his parents, who settled at Mokoia, near Hawera, where Mr. Lysaght farmed until about 29 years ago. He also farmed near Parihaka. Then he went to the east coast and bought the Welcome Bay Estate, near Tauranga. He retired from farming nine years ago and settled at Mount Maunganui. He was prominently identified with the public affairs of that resort. He te survived by Mrs. Lysaght, two sons and one daughter.

Mr. F. Carr Rollctt, who has been agricultural editor of the Auckland Weekly News and New Zealand Herald for the past 33 years, has retired. Born in Yorkshire, Mr. Rollett went to Australia when a young man, and after serving on various Victorian newspapers came to New Zealand, joining the Christchurch Press. In 1889 he transferred to the New Zealand Herald and Weekly News, and visited nearly every corner of the North Island during his work on these papers. He is well known as a vigorous advocate of closer land settlement and development, and has earned for himself a wide reputation as an agricultural writer. To mark his retirement his fellow journalists on the Herald and Weekly News presented him with a fishing rod.

Mr. M. Barak, one of the 1929 New Zealand Rhodes Scholars, has returned to London from the United States, and in October he will take up a teaching post at King’s College, University of London. In 1929 Mr. Barak was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship for research in chemistry, which took him to Princeton University. The Commonwealth fund makes provision for extensive travelling in America, and during last summer Mr. Barak spent three months visiting national parks, California and the Rockies. It will interest New Zealanders to know that this year Princeton University started Rugby football. The game became so popular that by the end of the season Princeton were national intercollegiate champions. While at Oxford Mr. Barak was prominent in his college fifteen, and he was also well known ill rowing circles.

A prominent English educations!, the Rev. B. II Owen, headmaster of Uppingham school, will arrive at Auckland by the Rangitiki on October 1. Mr. Owen, who is accompanied by his wife, is making a health tour round the world. Mr. Owen, who te the youngest headmaster to be appointed to the school, having obtained the post when he was 28 years old, was formerly at Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained his “blue” for rowing in 1910. He represented his college at both cricket and Rugby football. He was an assistant master at Clifton College from 1919 to 1912, when he was appointed a fellow and classical lecturer at Worcester College, Oxford, of which he was dean in 1914 and 1915. From 1913 to 1915 he acted as joint secretary of the Oxford and Cambridge examination board, and was select preacher at Oxford in 1926 and 1927.

News has been received in New Plymouth of tiie death at Aberdeen of Dr. Alex. G. Gall, who with Mrs. Gall spent a short time in Taranaki about three years ago in the course of a holiday tour through New Zealand. For about a fortnight Dr. and Mrs. Gall were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, of Durham Road, Inglewood, and they made many friends in the Inglewood district and in Auckland and Wellington. Mr. 8. Teed, of New Plymouth, who is at present making an extended tour a Home and abroad, had a conversation with the doctor only a few days before his death. Dr. Gall, who was 61 years old at the time of his death, was a native of Aberdeen. He received part of hie education at Robert Gordon’s Collc <r e, where he was a class fellow of Sir Arthur Keith. Then, with his father, who was a chemist in Skene Square, he went to Australia and entered Scots College at Melbourne. Later he returned to Aberdeen and graduated in medicine in 1892. The next three years of his life were spent as a medical practitioner in South Australia, and in 1895 he returned again to Aberdeen, where he established an extensive practice that lasted 36 years. For 24 years he held amongst other public appointments the post of medical officer to the Aberdeen Parish Council, which position he resigned in 1928. As parish council doctor he beewme a friend, as well as a doctor, among the poor of Aberdeen. Dr. Gall was very keenly interested in sports of all kinds. For many years he was senior doctor to the Aberdeen Football Club. He was also a boxing enthusiast and one of the most loyal supporters of tiie Aberdeenshire Cricket Club. He is survived by Mra. Gall and a daughter, Mrs. Elmslie, wife of Di. J. G. Elmslie, of Aberdeen.