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Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr. V. C. Davies, New Plymouth, leaves to-day on a visit to Australia. Mr. L. G. Lowry has been chosen the official candidate for the Otaki seat, states a Press Association message.

The Egmont County Council yesterday passed a resolution of sympathy with Mr. H. A. Foreman, chairman of the Clifton County Council, in the death of his wife.

It is expected that Major-General B. C. Freyberg, former New Zealander, will succeed Major-General H. J. Huddleston as commander of the Assam district, says a London cable. Sympathy with Mr. H. A. Foreman in the death of his wife was expressed last night at the quarterly meeting of the North Taranaki council of the Red Cross Society.

Sympathy with Misses Vera Sutherland and I. Ibbotson in their illnesses was expressed last night by the New Plymouth Choral Society. Both have been with the society since its earliest years.

Mr. James Purtell, union secretary, has been nominated by a number of Auckland unions as the workers’ delegate to attend the International Labour Conference at Geneva, says a Press Association message. Owing to the departure of the former president, Mr. M. Goldsbury, to a position at Turakina, Rev. J. D. Grocott was last night elected president of the New Plymouth branch of the League of Nations Union.

At the meeting of the Inglewood Borough Council last night sympathy was expressed with Mr. H. A. Foreman, chairman of the Clifton County Council, in the death of his wife. Chief Commissioner Childs has resigned from the New South Wales Police Force owing to advancing age, says a Sydney cable. His successor will be Metropolitan Superintendent J. W. Mackay, who will take over from March 24.

Members of the Tukapa Football Club at the annual meeting last night expressed sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. H. L. Gilbert, a very keen supporter of the club, also with Mr. F. Jull, a former playing member, because of the bereavement suffered by the death of'his wife. The death on Sunday of Tamati Whanganui at' Kaipakopako, Bell Block, removes one of the leading Maoris of the Taranaki province. He was a man of 80 when he died and had been in illhealth for some time. Tamati Whanganui and his brothdr Morere were chieftains of the Puketapu branch of the famous Ngatiawa tribe. They were wellknown and popular among pakehas and Maoris. The ancestral home was at Kairoa near Lepperton. Mr. P. Shaw, warehouse manager of the Auckland branch of Messrs. Sargood, Son and Ewen has. been appointed director of that company, says a Wellington Press Association message. Mr. Shaw joined the firm in 1903 at Dunedin and, with the exception of the war years when he was overseas, has spent his whole business career in the company’s service. Mr. Shaw was for several years manager of the Invercargill branch, from which he was transferred to Auckland as warehouse manager in 1930.

Changes in the personnel of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research are announced. Mr. George Shirtcliffe, who has been chairman of the council since its inception, has tendered his resignation as a member, and the Government has appointed Professor W. Riddet, of Massey Agricultural College, as his successor on the council. Di'. H. G, Denham, Christchurch, has - been appointed to succeed Mr. Shirtcliffe as chairman.