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Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1916, Page 4

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Dr. A. A. Martin, of Palmerston North, is reported to be again near the front in France. •Dr. R. S, /rotter, of Auckland, has been appointed assistant medical officer at Rarotonga. Dr. H. Barraclough, formerly of Palmerston North, has been appointed medical officer of t'he island of Nine. Mr. Hugh S. Ayson, of the legal firm of Bunny and Ayson, Wellington, has been appointed judge of the Native Land Court, Cook Islands. Mr. P. G. Morgan, Director of Geological Survey, has been appointed Under-Secretary for Mines, and the Mine? Office has been restored to the status ofj a separate department. The death is announced of Mr. George Franklin, one of the oldest settlers at Turakina, in his eighty-ninth year. He was one of the pioneer settlers on iflie coast. Bishop W. L. Williams, of Napier, lias attended every session of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of New Zealand for the last fifty years. A letter mas read at the opening of the Synod in Christcimrch explaining that .this time failure of physical strength debjirred Bishop Williams from being prescht. , A Wellington message states that Father Watters, referred to in yesterday's cables as Father Mathers, who was shot in Dublin, was the Very Rev. Dr. Watters, first, rector of St. Patrick's College, .. ellington, which he helped to establish in 188"). He was ordained ill 1874 by Archbishop Redwood, under whom he received the earlier years of his ecclesiastical training. The news of his death will be received with general regret.