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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19445, 3 November 1925, Page 6

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An Auckland message states that Thomas Harle Giles, ex-Conciliation Commissioner for the northern district, died on Sunday night after an operation.

The West Australian University has conferred tho honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Lord Burnham and Major Astor, of the Empire Press Union.

At Christchurch yesterday, seventy students from Canterbury College besieged Sir Ernest Rutherford’s car on the’ Worcester Street Bridge, and with the assistance of ropes, dragged it to the Municipal Chambers, where he was laccorded a civic reception.

Amongst the passengers by R.M.S. Rotorua from Homo on Saturday was Mr Llewellyn Meredith, brother of Archdciacon Meredith, of Wanganui, who was assistant district commisioncr for North Staffordshire for Boy Scouts. He intends to make his home in New Zealand.

The following wireless message has been received from Mr T. AL Wilford, who is a passenger by the Port Dunedin, which left Wellington on October 19: “I am quite sure tho voyage htis done me good, and that the break from political responsibilities has been largely the cause of this. Kind remembrances to all. Trip benefiting Mrs Wilford.”

On Sunday afternoon a pleasant little ceremony was engaged in by the teachers of St. James’ Presbyterian Sunday School, Wanganui East, when occasion was taken to present Mr G. Scott, tho superintendent, with a handsome wallet as a mark of the teachers’ esteem and affection on his attaining his jubilee as a Sunday School teacher. There were fourteen teachers present, who did justice to a very tasty tea, after which tho minister, Rev. G. F. Cox. handed Mr Scott the wallet as a slight token of the esteem in which he was held, with the best wishes of the teachers for many future years of service. Mr Scott, in replying, outlined his experience, which has certainly been a remarkable one, beginning in England in the seventies, and continuing in Scotland, and again in England, then in the United States, after which he came to Now Zealand, and was for nearly thirty years connected with St. Andrew’s Church, first at Aramoho, and later at Gloucester Street. For the last four years he has been associated with St. James’. Surely such a record of Empire-wide service, along with his connection with our groat overseas sister nation, is almost unique in Sunday School annals.