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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1933, Page 6

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Mr. R. Glover Clark, Auckland, is visiting New Plymouth and is staying at the Criterion Hotel Mr. J. Hine returned to Waitara on Saturday after attending a meeting of the Dairy Produce Board at Wellington on Friday.

Mr. Sydney Southerton has been appointed editor of Wisden’s in succession to Mr.' Stewart Caine, says a London cable.

Mr. S. Rawle, inspector of police for the Taranaki district, has returned to New Plymouth from holiday leave and will resume duty to-day.

Writing from Lausanne, Switzerland, Mrs. Cole recently stated that her husband, formerly Archdeacon of Taranaki, was suffering from paralysis agitans but the physical pain had been less since he went to Jamaica, where the heat was beneficial.

The Rev. C. C. Sedgwick and Mrs. who have been spending a short holiday at North Mount Egmont, have returned to New Plymouth. Mr. Sedgwick resumed his ministry at Fitzroy Knox Church yesterday. Mr. J. E. Bigelow (president) and Miss E. Andrews have been appointed 1 by the North Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute to represent, it at the annual meeting and jubilee of the institute to be held at Wellington on May 8. Mr. Nelson T. Lambourne, who has been appointed Director of Education, has held the position of chief inspector of primary schools since 1931. Born at Mangere, Auckland, in 1877, he received his first teaching appointment as a pupil master at the Grafton public school, Auckland, in 1892. During the following two years he was sole teacher at Te Akatea and Waingaro, which were then half-time schools. He afterwards served at Te Pahi school, now known as Whakapirau, and then as second assistant-mas-ter at the Devonport school. Mr. Lambourne was appointed headmaster of Mangere Bridge school in 1906, and while holding that position he graduated M.A. at Auckland University College in 1910. Five years later he became an inspector of . schools, and in 1919 was appointed headmaster of Napier Street school, resigning the following year to Become vice-principal of the Auckland Training College. He was reappointed an inspector in 1921, was made senior inspector of schools for the Napier district in 1925, and for the Wanganui district in 1926. In 1931 he was appointed chief inspector of primary schools in succession to Mr. W. W. Bird.