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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL

The Rev. A. L. Silcock, WeUington, will arrive at New Plymbuth from Wellington to-day. Mr. J. K. Steward, of tlie Otago Medical School, has been recommended to receive the award of the Lovel Moss Minor Exhibition by the Manchester University. Mr. H. W. Insull, secretary of the Taranaki education Board, who visited Auckland, for the New Education Fellowship course of lectufes, returned to New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. R. M. Chadwick, secretary of the Hawkes Bay Automobile Association for the last 14 years, has been appointed to the position of full-time secretary' of the association.* The death has occurred of Dr. Walter Simons, acting-Fresident of • Germany from tlie time of Herr Ebert's death .until the election of the late President Hindenburg in 1925, states a London cable. ' Mr. C. F. A. Waters, formerly of New Plymouth, who has been . relieving supervisor at the Palmerston North Post Office for the past five years, has been' advised of his, impending transfer to Wellington, where he will act as commercial agent. Count P. F. Ablefeldt-Laurvig, Danish Minister at London for the last 15 years, who is retiring at the end of this year, will be replaced by Count Eduard Reventlow, Danish Minister at Stockholm. The latter was Charge d'Affaires at London from 1913 to 1919 and later Permanent Under-Secretary at the Danish Foreign Ministry. Mr. Graaf van Limburg Stirum, the new Netherlands Minister at London, reached London yesterday, states a Britisla Official Wireless message. He sjjcceeds Mr. R. de Morees Swindern, who has been Netherlands Minister since before the war. t'rom 1916 to 1921 Mr. Graaf van Stirum was Governor-Gen-eral of * the Dutch East Indies. He was Minister to Berlin for ten years until the end of last year. The death of Mr. E. O. Mackay, Rotorua, occurred on Thursday while he was visitjng New Plymouth. Mr. Mackay was born at Nelson, where his father was a judge of the Native Land Court. He was well known in the Feilding and Te Kuiti districts, where he lived for some time. Some years ago he married a daughter of the late Mr. M. Fraser. Mrs. Mackay was at New Plymouth at the time of his death. Passengers to and from the New Plymouth airport yesterday were: From Wellington, Mr. W. McKay; from Auckland, Mr. E. G.\Rogers, Mr. R. S. Rogers and Mr. L. Abbott. To Auckland, Mrs. and Miss Hooker, Mrs. A. Williams, Mr. and Miss Gryllis; to Wellington, Mr. Nesbit Sniith, Mr. R. T. Thomas. Tlie south plane left New Plymouth with all seating accommodation taken. The Minister of Finance and Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, is scheduled to leave New York to-day by the cSanta Barbara for Cristobal to connect with the Mataroa on July 22 for New Zealand, states a Press Association message. The Mataroa is due at Auckland on August 12. No word has been received by the New Zealand Government that Mr. Nash was to make a return visit to I Ottawa, the possibility of which' was suggested in a message from Washing-] ton. '