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Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1935, Page 4

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Mr. W. F. Short, New Plymouth, is visiting Christchurch. Mr. P. E. Stainton will leave New Plymouth to-morrow for Wellington, and will proceed to Christchurch for the. conference of municipal electricity supply authorities.

Constable O’Donnell, who will replace Sergeant S. King at the Fitzroy police station, is due at New Plymouth from Taneatua to-day.

Mr. J. A. Valentine, chairmail of the Taranaki Education Board, will leave New Plymouth early next month to spend some weeks at Sydney. The death of Dr. William John Adie, M.D., F.R.C.P., a well-known authority ozi nervous diseases, is reported by cable from London.

The death of Dr. James Malcolm Maclaren, a New Zealander, is reported by cable from London. He was associated with Western Australian mining. Lord Jellicoe’s daughter, Lady Gwendoline Jellicoe, has been affianced to Major Edward Latham, of the Royal Horse Artillery, says a London cable. Messrs. P. A. Anderson and W. A. Smith, Levin, were among the visitors to the New Plymouth Jersey show yesterday.

Mr. M. D. Murray, Woodville, judge at the New Plymouth Jersey. Cattle Club’s show yesterday, will remain in the district a few days, visiting some of the Jersey studs before returning home. Captain F. L. Hartnell and Mrs. A. S. Clark, who went to Australia recently with the New Zealand croquet team, were guests of honour last night at a card party aranged by the Croquet Association.

Congratulations were extended to Mr. J. B. Rowe, president, by the Hawera Football Club for his share in securing the A. and P. grounds at Hawera on behalf of the Taranaki Rugby Union. Sergeant Henry said Mr. Rowe had done the lion’s share of the work and deserved credit.

Reference was made at the New Plymouth Jersey show yesterday to the serious loss that had been suffered by the deaths of Dr. D. Blackley, New Plymouth, Mr. W. D. Cartwright, Lepperton, and Mr. J. R. Corrigan, Hawera, who were prominent members of Jersey clubs in Taranaki. Sympathy with their relatives was expressed, members standing in silence. The death occurred on Tuesday of Mr. George Seagar, an old citizen of Wellingtdn, says a Press Association message. He was 89 years old. He was bom at Southampton, where he served for a time as an engineer and boilermaker. Later at Ryde, Isle of Wight, he helped to repair the Engine 13, at Ryde, recently reported by cable as the oldest working locomotive in England. In 1874 Mr. Seagar came to New Zealand in the ship Hydaspes and joined his brother Edward in a contract to build three locomotives for the new Palmerston North-Foxton line. He drove the first engine into Palmerston North. He leaves a family of two sons, Edward and George, and two daughters, Mrs. J. Chalmers, Sydney, and Miss Nellie Seagar.