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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. P. E. Stainton will return to New Plymouth from Wellington to-day., A resolution of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. T. C. List was passed at the meeting of the Egmont County Council yesterday. The chairman, Mr. W. C. Green, said Mr. List had taken a great interest in public bodies, including the Egmont County Council, and he would be greatly missed. The death has occurred of Admiral Sir Thomas Sturges Jackson, aged 92, the senior officer of his rank in the retired list of tire Royal Navy, says a London cable. Sir Thomas Jackson served at the capture of Peiho Forts, China, in 1858.

Tire Central School Committee last night recorded its opinion that the district had suffered a heavy loss in the death of Mr. ,T. C. List. The chairman, Mr. F. A. Coleman, paid tribute to the great help that Mr. List had rendered to educational matters generally. Mr. A. Dunkley, as an old boy of the Rangiora High School, as was also Mr. List, supported Mr. Coleman’s remarks. Mr..A. A. Bennett was elected the first life member of the New Plymouth Old Boys’ Cricket Club at the annual meeting last night. Mr. W. H. Brown said Mr. Bennett had intimated that he did not intend to act in an official capacity in future. He had been loyal and given excellent service to the club for many years. Mr. Bennett would in no way lose interest in the club and the least the club could do to show its appreciation was to bestow upon Mr. Bennett the honour of being the club’s first life member, said Mr. Brown. Other speakers endorsed the remarks. Mr. G. C. Billing, lecturer in economics at Otago University, has been granted the degree of PhD. Mr. Billing went to England in 1932 with a Rockefeller fellowship, and .has been studying at the London School of Economics. His treatise for his degree was on “The Relation of Protection to the Industrial Development of New Zealand.” Mr. and Mrs. Billing and their young child will leave London in October. They will spend two months at Adelaide before going on to Dunedin. Recently they enjoyed a trip to Denmark, Sweden and Norway.