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Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1933, Page 4

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Mr. J. Power, who travelled to Rotorua in the Southern Cross on Tuesday, returned to New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. J. Fletcher, Auckland, and Mr. W. J. Boden, Wellington, are visiting New Plymouth and are staying at the Criterion Hotel.

Mr. J. McLeod left New Plymouth yesterday morning for Wellington to attend a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Racing Conference. Mr. Robert Brown, headmaster of the Millerton school, has been appointed headmaster of the Inglewood school in succession to Mr. McKinney, who. has accepted ah. appointment at Dannevirke.

Mr. C. P. Smith, Labour Department, New Plymouth, and secretary of the North Taranaki Unemployment Relief Committee, has returned from his annual leave at Wellington. The death of Mr. H. E. C. Robinson, official map publisher, whose maps are used in most Government institutions and schools of Australia, has occurred in Sydney, states a cable message. Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., who returned from Wellington especially to attend the monthly meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, of which he is chairman, leaves for Wellington this morning. Field-Marshal Sir George F. Milne will relinquish his appointment as chief of the Imperial general staff on February 19 states a London cable. General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingbird will leave the Adjuant-General’s office to succeed him and General Sir Cecil Romer will take up the duties of Ad-juant-General. ( Sir William Perry was congratulated by the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Uunion at Wellington upon the honour conferred upon him recently by the King. The chairman, Mr. W. J. Polson, M.P., said Sir William was an outstanding producer in New Zealand. “We feel,” said Mr. Polson, “that the honour that has been done to him is an honour to the whole farming community, and I think he has been selected as a very worthy representative of the Dominion for the honour.”