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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 6

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la the recent examination for the Royal Academy Grammar of Music, Master W. E. Burgess, a pupil of Miss D. Rowe, passed iu grade 4 with 93 marks. Mr. W. McHardy Forman, of Wellington, managing-director of General Motors (New Zealand), Limited, arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Mariposa on Saturday. The Rev. Father Herring, parish priest of Whangarci, ir> to be transferred to Villa Maria, Sydneyi Father Murphy, of Timaru. is to replace Father Herring at Whangarci. Mr. S. S. Crick, managing-director of Fox Films in Australia, and chairman of directors of Hoyt’s Theatre, arrived at Auckland by the Mariposa from Sydney on Saturday. He is on a business visit to the Dominion. Mr. A. M. Eedy, managing-director of the Mutual Life and Citizens’ Assurance Company, Limited, arrived at Auckland from oyfluey, via Wellington, by the Monowai on Friday. He was accompanied by Mrs. Eedy and their family. Air. Allan Monkhouse, critic novelist and dramatist, who was closely associated with the repertory theatre movement in the early days in Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool, died on Saturday at his Cheshire home, aged 77. States a, British Official Wireless mesMr. L. Walton, chairman of the board of directois of the Vauxiiall Motor Company, and who was lor two years president of the Society cf British Motor Alanufaeturcr.se and Traders, will arrive at Auckland by the Mariposa from Sydney on Saturday. He was accompanied by Ain?. Mallon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, Grand Prior, has authorised the issue of the Service Aledal of the Order of St. John to Corporal C. Bridges, and the live-year Service Star to the medal held by Superintendent W. Bourne, both of the Wanganui Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Overseas. The Earl of Seibcurnc, who will visit lhe Dominion shortly on the liner Otranto, had a distinguished career before 1916 being at various Limes Un-der-Sou nil ary for the Colonics, First Lord of the Admiralty, and President of the Board c-f Agiieulturc. Lady Sclbourne is a daughter of. the third Alarqueus of Salisbury. Air, Charles ALoihi Bennett, a sun of Bishop Bennett, has completed his B.A. degree and also has obtained a diploma in education. Air. Bennett is a student of the Teachers’ Training College in Christchurch. He is the first student from the Arawa tribe to gain the •bachelor of arts degree and the first student of tire Maori race to obtain a. diploma in education. A Wellington Press message states that the death has occurred of Mr. Francis Rae Hogarth, of Wellington. Mr. Hogarth was an old. resident of Wellington. He was born in Geelong. Victoria, ami came to New Zealand with his parents when he was eight years of age. He was well known in business circles and "as chairman ol directors of the Golden Bay Cement Company and a director of the Now Zealand Guarantee Corporation and the Grey Valley Collieries. Sir Francis Dent, "ho is making the round trip on the liner Otranto, which left Tilbury recently lor Australia and New Zealand, is a director of the Southern Railway. He has spent more than 50 years in the service of various British railways, joining the London and North-Western Railway in 1884. He became the London ami district goods traffic manager of the SouthEastern and Chatham Railway in 1907, and was general manager from 1911 to 1920. He is alsu a governor of the iuO-ndon Schoo; of -Economßs.