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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1932, Page 4

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Dr. Short, Wellington, is staying at the White Hart Hotel, New Plymouth. Mr. J. L. Taylor, manager of the Lowgarth Dairy Co., has been appointed general manager of the Mangatoki Dairy Co. in succession to the late Mr. G. Wood. _. Messrs. W. L. Kennedy and C. K.hinnerty, Stratford, have been re-appointed the Whangamomona County Councils representatives on the East Committee of the Egmont National Park Board.

Mr W. H. Cook, formerly engineer to the New Plymouth Borough Council, died in London early last month. Mr. Cook was town clerk and engineer at Hastings for two years, borough engineer at Petone for 7J years, and engineer to the Carterton County Council for one year.. He was in private practice at Hastings when in 1910 he was appointed borough engineer at New He left New Plymouth in October, 1025, to accept an appointment as engineer to the borough of Mt. Albert, Auckland. He was subsequently engaged in work for the Public Works Department at Dunedin, but had to relinquish that work on account of health and climatic conditions. Mr. Cook decided to return to London at the beginning of this year and was living with his sisters when he suffered a heart attack which proved fatal. Mr. Cook was about 62 years of age. He leaves a widow (now in London) and one daughter, Mrs. Dobson, Omata.

The London Alpine Club has conferred life membership on Mr. A- Harper, of Wellington, in recognition of his services to mountaineering.. Mr. Harper, whose experience in alpine climbing extends over 45 years, has been a member of the London Alpine Club since 1892. He began climbing' in Switzerland m 18S7, and in 1889 he returned to New Zealand. During the two following years he led parties over the littleknown Tasman area, and in 1892 he joined other members of the London Alpine Club in guideless work in Zermatt, Switzerland. From 1893 to 1896 Mr. Harper carried, out exploration, work on the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, New Zealand, and his subsequent work has kept him almost continuously in the forefront of mountaineering in the Dominion. His book, “Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand,” is known to all keen students of alpine climbing. As president of the New Zealand Alpine Club, Mr. Harper has achieved a great deal for mountaineers, and he is a recognised authority on the safeguards required in climbing. I,