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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1920, Page 4

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Rifleman Roots has been selected to accompany the New Zealand rifle team to Australia. Mr. Jas. Clarke, Mayor of New Plymouth, returned home last evening from Wellington. Mr. Roy Parkin was last night appointed captain of the Fitzroy Fire Brigade in place of the late Mr. W. H. Griffiths. Mr. H. Linley Richardson, R.8.A., head of the art department of the Welling•ton Technical College, has received a commission from the Government to paint a portrait from lifs'of Captain L. W. Andrews, V.C., at present stationed at New Plymouth, for the National' War Museum. The portrait will be' in oils, half-length life-size. News was received in Wellington yesterday by cable that Mr. Arthur Tattle, manager of the Dominion Motors, Ltd., who was visiting Sydney, was struck liy tho wing of an aeroplane lie was endeavoring to photograph, and he was so badly injured that he died soon after teaching hospital. The late Mr. Tattle was born in Wellington and was not married.—Press Association. Mr. J. R. Hooper, New Zealand manager for the Commonwealth: and Dominion Line, is, on the recommendation of his medical adviser, making a sea. voyage in the near future. He intends leaving for England by the Port Sydney early in October. Mr. W. G. de Gruchy, assistant-manager for Now Zealand, and Captain J. B. Rainey, marine superintendent, have been appointed joint managers, and assume their new duties immediately. Captain A. W. West, now in command of the Port Perie, will succeed Captain Rainey as marine superintendent.