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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1932, Page 6

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Mr. J. Dobson has been re-elected chairman of directors of the Kaimata Co-op. Dairy Company for the sixth year in succession. Constable Longbottom, Inglewood, has resumed duty after having been on holiday leave. Constable Stanton, New Plymouth, has been relieving at Inglewood. Mr. R. B. Sutton was yesterday reelected chairman of directors of the Moa Dairy Company for the fourteenth year in succession. Mr. A. Dawson, chief postmaster at Wanganui, has retired on superannuation after 37| years’ service in the department. Mr. R. H. Nimmo, managing director of Messrs. Hamilton Nimmo and Sons., Wellington and New Plymouth, is on a short business visit to Taranaki. One of Dunedin’s best known medical practitioners, Dr. F. Ratcliffe Riley, died yesterdliy at the age of 67, says a Press Association message. Dr. Riley quailfled in London and took the degree of F.R.C.S. at Edinburgh. With the death of Mr. S. Stroud, New Plymouth has lost one of its former welbkinown footballers. Mr. Stroud, who played for the Star club, was one of Taranaki’s noted place-kickers. He played for the Taranaki team in 1900 and 1901. One of the founders of the East End Seaside Society, Mr. Stroud always took a keen interest in the development of the reserve, being its caretaker for- two or three years about seven years ago. He was a strong swimmer and expert life-saver and rescued a number of people from drowning. For this, within comparatively recent years, be was awarded a I‘loyal Humane Society medal. The death of Mr. Andrew Mackenzie took place on Sunday at Wellington. Mr. Mackenzie was born in Dunedin in 1879, and was the son of the late Mr. George Mackenzie, Government Surveyor, and Mrs, J, Mackenzie, Queenstown. He was educated at Dunedin and Wellington Boys’ College, and was for a number of years with Briscoe and Co. and later Thompson, Bridger and Co. He had for the last twenty-five years been the New Zealand director and representative of Lachlan, Mackay, and Co. Mr, Mackenzie was for. some years a mem* ber of the executive of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the committee of management of the Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen’s Association. He was also an old and prominent member of the Savage Club. Mr. Mackenzie was a cousin of the late Sir Thomas Mackenzie, and nephew of Mr. G. A. Troup, the late Mayor of Wellington. The death occurred at his residence, Tate Road, Waitara, yesterday of Mr. Benjamin Budden in his 78th year. Mr. Budden, who had been very ill for some time, was keenly interested in all matters of importance to the fanning community. Born at Notherbury, Dorset, England, in 1854, Mr. Budden landed at Auckland in 1874. He settled at Wellington but later farmed in the Wairarapa for several years. Mr. .Budden moved to Otorohanga 30 years ago and was for a long period a county councillor, a school commissioner and president of the district branch of the Farmers’ Union. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1918. _ Five years ago Mr. Budden came to Waitara, where he became a member of the executive of the Huirangi branch of the Farmers’ Union and took an interest in farmers’ activities. He leaves a widow (formerly Miss Phoebe Holdaway, Richmond, Nelson), four sons—Messrs. B. H. and G. B, (Te Awamutu), H. W. (Devonport, Auckland) and J. A. (Brixton) —and four daughters— Mesdames Syder (Nelson), Rattray (Otorohanga), G. Sole (Mahoenui) and A. McDell (Otahuhu).