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General Petain, the hero of Verdun, lirk been appointed Chief of the General Staff.
Mr. E. C. Johnson, the reeently-api pointed assistant secretary to the Tara« uaki Education Board, commenced duties yesterday. Mr. Harry M'Kenzie has been op* pointed Government member of tho Waitara Harbor Board, and Mr. James Cohaglen, sen., Government member o? the Opunako Harbor Board. At tho annual meeting of the direc« tors of tho Taranaki Farmers' Mutual iFire Insurance Association, held on Saturday, Mr. 11. D. Forsyth was reelected chairman for the ensuing year. . At the Napier local bodies elections, Mr Vigor Brown, M.P., in addition to being defeated for the Mayoralty by 300 votes, | was rejected in tho Harbor Board elew tion. I
An Aucklahd telegram announces thai death of Mr. Henry Andrew Gordon, a member of the University Senate, agedt 81 yeßrs. The New South Wales Cabinet has fixed the term of the Hon. Q. Wade's appointment as Agent-General at fivq years.—Press Association.
The death occurred at Wellington oni Friday, after a "brief illness, of Mr. Onirics W. Ncttletom, who some year* ago was foreman printer of the Taranaki Daily News. Prior to that he wfcs part owner of tho Mangaveka. paper. Subsequently he joined the Government Printing Office. Mr. Ncttlcton, who was 38 years of ago, has left a, widow and two children, to whom their friends in Nafll Plymouth will extend sympathy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1917, Page 4
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