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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1934, Page 4

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Mr. C. H. Weston, K.C., a former president of the New Plymouth Rotary Club, has been initiated as a member of the Wellington Rotary Club. Mr. Eric Clegg, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, is progressing satisfactorily. Mr. H. Honeyfield, Palmerston North, and a passenger arrived at New Plymouth in the plane ZK—ABV yesterday. They later returned to Palmerston North. Mr. J. G. Elliott, general manager of the Egmont Box Company, has returned to Eltham from a business visit to the Pacific Coast of America, where he made arrangements for the purchase of machinery required by the company’s new timber mill at National Park. Mr. A. E. Brown died at Wellington yesterday at the, age of 60, reports the Press Association. Until recently he was an active member of the firm of Samuel Brown, Ltd. He served with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade during the Great War. He was a prominent Freemason. Lieutenant H. A. H. Insull, of the Hawkes Bay Regiment, has passed his examination for promotion to the rank of captain. Mr. Insull is an old boy of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School and is at present on the staff of the Hastings High School. Captain E. M. Bolt, of the Royal Artillery, accompanied by his wife and child, arrived at New Plymouth by the Auckland express yesterday. Captain Bolt, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Bolt, Westown, is on two months’ furlough from his regiment at Hong Kong. The death has occurred at Auckland of Dr. Herbert Barraclough, aged 85, formerly of the Mental Hospitals Department and for the past eight years honorary medical officer of the Auckland City Mission, states a Press Association message. i