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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1933, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. A. Cutfield, Pukekohe, is a visitor to New Plymouth. .

The death lias occurred of the Maharaja of Dumraon at Calcutta after a long illness, states a cable from Calcutta.

The death of Dr. Maurice O’Reilly, rector of St. John’s Roman Catholic College, within the University of Sydney, is reported by cable. His age was 66. Mr. W. H. Huggett, New Plymouth borough electrical engineer, is visiting Wellington for the annual conference of electrical engineers. Lieut.-Commander J. M. Harman, H.M.A.S. Canberra, MeSSrs A. M. MacDiarmid (Manaia) and R. R. Taylor (Christchurch) were visitors at yesterday’s luncheon of the New Plymouth Rotary Club.

Mr. Robert Mitchell, Minister at Montevideo and Ambassador designate at Santiago, has been appointed by the King a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, says a British Official Wireless message.

Mr. A. Bain, senior inspector of schools in Taranaki, who broke his leg when he fell on the Opunake golf links three months ago, ha's returned home from the New Plymouth Hospital. It. will, however, be some time before he is able to resume his duties.

Mr. G. H. Bell, Oakura, president of the New Zealand Co-operative HerdTesting Association, will leave for Wellington to-day to attend a meeting, of the central executive of that organisation.

Mr. T. Baxter, representative of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, will arrive at New Plymouth this evening by car from Hamilton. The arrangements concerning his stay at New Plymouth were indefinite yesterday, but he will probably be taken to points of interest in the district on Wednesday morning. He is due at Hawera that evening.

Many quaint and curious provisions are included in wills made by people who seek to govern the destinies of posterity. An instance is reported by a Sydney paper, which states that a lady of quality has just left the revenue of £30,000 to her grand-daughter with a proviso that the bequest is to be cancelled if the person or children commit a breach of the proviso stipulating that they must not propagate extreme political views or Communism. Such a possibility is remote, but there it is.

“Why not save the Maori names until H.M.S. Diomede'and Dunedin are scrapped? The English people do not know how to pronounce them and, what is more, do not understand their meanings,” said Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson at a meeting of the general committee of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League, when the proposal from the Wellington branch that two warships now being built should be named Kupe and Turi instead of Eclipse and Esk was being discussed. Members agreed that the names would be more fitting attached to ships continually in New Zealand waters and it was decided to notify the Wellington branch accordingly.

No fewer than 2592 separate drains connected with residences in Napier have been replaced since the earthquake of 1931, and from the applications for attention which are being received weekly at the office of the building and sanitary inspector of the Napier City Council it would appear that it will be some considerable time yet before this essential work may be stated to have been completed (states the Hawke’s Bay Herald). In the majority of cases where applications for repairs have been lodged only recently, the defects in the pipes have not been noticed until a short while ago. The greater number of these cases are connected with the homes in the hills.

A new record for Otago in the way of fish was procured by the trawler Stina, when a spotted gurnard was taken when trawling off Purakanui. Recognising the fish as unusual, it was forwarded to Mr. David H. Graham for examination and identification. Mr. Graham states that this is the first record of the spotted gurnard in Otago waters. Reference books state that spotted gurnards are not caught south of the Bay of Plenty and North Cape. It is not unlike the ordinary gurnard in shape, but the body markings are exquisite and spots and bars of black, yelow pink, and white are irregularly ranged on the sides. The fins are beautifully ornamented, especially the inner side of the long pectoral fins, which are most exposed to the light when the fish is floating in the water with the fins spread out like wings. The specimen will be given to the museum.

New dress fabrics and soft furnishings comprising curtain nets, cretonnes, tickings, sheets and sheetings, linen glass and tea towels, and towels of all descriptions have opened out at Scanlan’s Ltd. at the Melbourne Comer. All these goods have been bought exceptionally well and buyers can rest assured that they will receive fullest value for their money.*