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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 4

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Mr. W. H. Batchelor will leave New Plymouth this morning on a business visit to the South Island. Mr. W. H. Huggett, electrical engineer to the New Plymouth Borough Council, is visiting Wellington on business.

The death of the Rt. Rev. Lionel Payne Crawford, suffragan to the Bishop of Litchfield, is announced by a London cable. He was appointed in 1915. The War Office announces that Lieut.Colonel Harrison, The Green Howards, has been appointed general staff officer (first grade) with the British troops in China, with effect from March next, says a British wireless message. The death of Cavalier Geraldo P.erotti, Italian Vice-Consul since 1911, when he succeeded his father in the position, has occurred at Greymouth at the' age of 62 says a Press Association message. He was a native of Greymouth and a borough councillor. He was knighted last year by Signor Mussolini in recognition of his very energetic work on behalf of the numerous Italian population at Greymouth. He was formerly a noted footballer.

“We have lost not only an able journalist, but a splendid citizen by the death of Mr. T. C. List,” said Mr. A. V. Tait, chairman of the Kaponga Dairy Company directors, in moving a vote of sympathy with the relatives at the annual meeting of the company on Friday. The Press, said Mr. Tait, was part and parcel of the dairy industry and had given it great assistance through various forms of publicity. Mr. List had given much service to dairymen.