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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 230, 30 September 1942, Page 4

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Mr. P. P. Gardiner has been appointed a member of the Wellington Cargo Control Committee. Mr. J. A. Nash, Palmerston North, was yesterday re-elected president ot the Manawatu Bowling Centre, thus entering his 29th. year in that office. Dr. Mary Talbot and Dr. Eunice Mac Lean have been appointed senior house surgeons at the Wellington hospital. Mr. W. Appleton has been re-elected unopposed as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Wellington Technical College. Dr. W. A. Riddell, High Commissioner for Canada, was taken ill on Saturday when acting as a judge in the Piunket Medal oratory contest at Victoria University College, Wellington.

Mr. M. J. Scott, supervisor of primary production, was a visitor to Wanganui yesterday and attended the meeting of the Wanganui District Primary Production Council. He later- left for Palmerston North. Mr. Henri Penn, of Melbourne, examiner of the Trinity College of Music, is visiting Wanganui and w/. be engaged this week conducting examinations. Mr. Penn is to speak at the Wanganui Rotary Club next Monday. News has been received by Mrs. C. Peoples, of Auckland, of the death of her eldest son, D. G. R. Peoples, in Australia. Born in Christchurch in 1909, Mr. Peoples was educated at Christ’s College, and joined the staff of the Bank of New South Wales. After a number of years he relinquished his position, to take up an appointment on the advertising staff of Reuters, Limited, Brisbane, later becoming advertising manager for that firm. The death occurred on Sunday, at his residence, in Brougham Street, Wellington, of Mr. James Paul, one of the heads of the firm of Townsend and Paul, Allen Street. Mr. Paul, who was born in Peckham, London, in 1865, came to New Zealand with his parents as an infant. Mr. Paul retired from business over 20 years ago, and his son, Mr. Stanley Paul, is now one of the principals. The late Mr. Paul was never in public life. Pie built a lovely home at Karaka Bay, where he resided for a quarter of a century, till he moved to Brougham Street. He was formerly a member of the Seatoun Bowling Club, and later joined the Victoria Bowling Club of which he was a member at the time of his death. After a residence in Auckland of 73 years the death occurred on Saturday at Orakei of the Hon. George Ferrers Tonwshend, aged 88. He was born in Guernsey, the son of the Rev. Lord George Osborne Townshend and nephew of the fourth marquis. With his widowed mother, Lord Victoria Townshend, and two brothers he arrived in New Zealand in 1877 and joined the Lands and Survey Department, in which he continued till his retirement a few years ago. He was heir presumptive to the 24-year-old marquis, who is serving with the Royal Artillery, and who has a young daughter. The new heir to the title, which was created in 1724, is Mr. Ferrers Osborne Townshend, ot Northcote, eldest son of the late Mr. Townshend. Other sons are Mr. Stuart Townshend, of Devonport, Mr. Geoffrey Townshend, of Sydney, and Mr. Vere Townshend, of Auckland. There are four daughters. The Hon. Ernest Townshend, of Picton, and the Hon. Henry Townshend, of Ponsonby, are brothers. The late Mr. Townshend was uncle of the late General Sir Charles Townshend, the defender of Kut.