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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1933, Page 6

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Mr. John Galsworthy’s health has slightly improved, states a British Official Wireless message. He was reported some days ago to be seriously ill. Herr Marius Boeger, formerly a director of the German-Australian nine, has been appointed president of . the Ham-burg-Amerika Line in succession to Herr Wilhelm Cuns, a former Chancellor who died recently, states a Berlin cable. Mr. Eric C. Smart has passed the examination for the Associate Member .of the Institute of Civil Engineers, for which he sat last October. Mr. Smart is the son of Mr. Herbert Smart, was educated at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School and passed through Christchurch University College with the degree of B.E. He is at present engineer in charge of road building for the Public Works Department on the West Coast. The musical public of Canterbury and of New Zealand will learn with regret of the death of Mr. William Densem, about whose name are linked many of the earlier musical and elocutionary associations of the country. Mr. Densem left Christchurch five years ago, taking up his residence in retirement at Wellington. There he died on Wednesday at the age of 74. The last of a well-known Wanganui family, Mr. William Nathan, died at Palmerston North, on Thursday. Mr. Nathan, who was in his eightieth year, was the youngest son of Mr. Henry Nathan, Wanganui, the head of a family closely connected with the 'early development and settlement of that town, and tor a period the Mayor. Another link with the old sailing ship days was broken by the death in a private hospital of Captain Robert Kennedy, Ponsonby, Auckland, who for a number of years was master of the four-masted barque Rewa, Two other sailing ship masters whose deaths occurred this week were Captains McKenzie and Campbell. Captain Kennedy was bom at Hobart, Tasmania, in 1864, his father being a master mariner serving in the whaling ships. From infancy he was in the closest contact with ships and. the sea, and when his schooldays were finished he took to the sea as a career. He rose until, when still a young man, he secured his master’s certificate and was given commands.

Legal practitioners at Opunake yesterday tendered a welcome to Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., who wa? making his initial appearance on the bench in Opunake. Mr. C. O. Edmonds expressed the hope that Mr. Woodward’s stay in the district would be pleasant. The magistrate would find there was generally plenty of work of a varied nature at the Opunake court but he could always be assured of the co-operation of the membefs of the bar. 1 Mr. T. B. Fouhy also spoke. In acknowledging the welcome Mr. Woodward said he felt certain he would have the co-operation of the members of the bar in seeking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the cases that came before the court, insofar as their duty to their clients -permitted them.