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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, Mr. R. N. Jones, C.8.E., is visiting New Plymouth and is staying at the Criterion. Sympathy with Mr. R. C. Hughes in his illness was expressed by the Pukekura Park Board last night. The Governqt-General, Lord Bledisloe, has again shown his interest in the preservation of national forests by accepting the office of patron of the New Zealand Forestry League. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has left Australia for Java preparatory to flying thence to England, via Holland, as the guest of the K.L.M. Dutch Aviation Company. Lady Kingsford Smith is accompanying Sir Charles to Java, but will return from there to Australia. Mr. E. J. Bell, librarian at the Christchurch Public Library, has been granted three months-’ leave of absence to enable him to attend the conference of the Libraries’ Association at Chicago in October. Mr. Bell has been invited to attend the conference by the Carnegie Corporation. Among the names of the recent new justices of the peace appears that of Mr. J. Murray, Whakatane. Prior to moving to Whakatane, Mr. Murray was the Taranaki representative for Joseph Nathan and Co. Ltd., and he is now Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association. Mr. T. L. Binney, secretary at the head office of the Commercial Union since 1929, died at Wellington yesterday, th<? Press Association reports. Before 1929 Mr. Binney was manager of the company at Auckland. He joined the Dunedin branch in 1905. Mr. Binney served in .the artillery, his war services leaving effects from which he never fully recovered. Mr. F. G. Seddon, who has been secretary to the Wanganui Agricultural Association for the past 14 years, has resigned that position and his resignation has been accepted by the executive with regret. About 1919, consequent on the retirement of Mr. Gifford-Moore from the secretaryship, which had been taken over following the death of Mr. Selby Morton, Mr. Seddon, who had been accountant to the firm of Green and Beaven, Ltd., was selected for the post. He came with a great deal of energy and displayed it very effectively, with the result that the association proposed and attained its jubilee year with colours flying. Mr. Seddon was secretary during that very successful celebration of the attainment of the association’s 50th birthday. , . The death, occurred with tragic suddenness yesterday morning at his home from heart failure of Mr. Archibald M. McNicol, managing editor of the Darmevirke Evening News for many years, re* ports the Press Association. He was formerly member for Pahiatua, and had played a prominent part in town and district affairs for the last 25 years. ■ He leaves a widow and three daughters, one of whom, Miss P. McNicol, is on the nursing staff of the New Plymouth hospital. Mr. McNicol was bom at Waihola in 1878, the son of the Rev. Jolm McNicol. He was educated at Dunedin and became a mining reporter on the Otago Daily Times. He was later chief reporter on the Napier Daily Telegraph and had been managing editor -of the Dannevirke Evening News since 1909. Mr. McNicol was the member for Pahiatua from 1919 to 1922 and was a New Zealand delegate to the Imperial Press Conference in London in 1930.