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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. It. (!. Schroder, an old resident of the West Coast, has died at Auckland, at the advanced age of ninetythree years. Constable J\ W. Edwards, who has been transferred from Auckland to fill a vacancy at the New Plymouth station, arrived in New Plymouth last night. His Excellency tlie Governor-General, after visiting Palmerston North, Wangamii and Taranaki next, week, will pay official visits to Hastings, Napier, Dannevirkc, and Mu.sterion. Mr. P. E. Slainlon returned to New Plymouth by the mail train last night from Christehurch, where he has been attending it conference of motor garage proprietors. Dr. Richard Charles Mills, aged 34 years, who at present is tutor in"history and sociology at Melbourne University, and lecturer in economics for the Workers Educational Association, Melbourne, has been appointed professor of economics at Ota go University. Messrs. C. Goodson and E. A. Washer, who have been acting as judges at the Wnnganui Show, returned to Hawera by the mail train yesterdav.. Mr. C, R. Stannard, secretary of the Egmont a! and P. Association, also returned by the same train. Messrs. A. Morton, H. D. Forsyth, and W. D. Powdrell, M.P., returned by the mail train yesterday from Wellington, where, with other leading lepresentatives of the dairy industry in New Zealand, thpy waited 011 the Prime Minister and asked that the matter of the increased shipping freights 011 cheese be placed before the Imperial Government. This the Premier promised to do.

Further messages of sympathy in connection with the death "of the'late Mr James Clarke were received from the following:—Mr. A. S. RnssMl, Tnvercargill; Mr. H. J: fowler, Wellington; New Plymouth .High School Board, New Plymouth; Borough Council, Mart on; Borough Council, Dannevirke; Mr. I„ Birks, Chief Electrical Engineer, Public Works Department, Wellington. . The borough manager, New Plymouth, has received the following message from Mr. A. S. Russell, /Invereargill:—"l acknowledge with deep gratitude the receipt of your message conveying the sympathy of your council Please convey to them tuul the residents of your town my very deep appreciation of their kindly expressions, and I regret exceedingly that the sad fatality not only robbed me of a son but you of two worthy residents." A vote of condolence and sympathy with Mrs. Clarke, Mayoress of New Plymouth, in hor bereavement-through tile recent aviation tragedy, was'iiissed.'on the motion of Councillor Mclae, at u meeti ig of the Woolston Boroagh Council. The following resolution was:, also carried bv the Christchureh City •Council:—"We, the Mayor and councillors of the City of Ciiristclnireh, oil behalf of the citizens of Ciiristchiirch, wish to express our deep regret and sorrow at the fatal accident which has deprived New Plymouth of her Mayor, the late Mr. .lames Clarke, and Xv.w Zealand of a great aviator in Captain Richard Russell, D.F.C, AVe also wish to express or.r deepest sympathy with the relatives and all those who must sorrow at the loss of their dear ones." At tilt' opening of the Avon Bowling Club (Stratford) yesterday afternoon, the president (Mr. .1. Masters) extended the sympathy of the Club to the Ilawcra and Eltliam Clubs on the loss of two splendid bowlers. He referred 1o the late Mr. W. A. Parkinson, of Hawcra, and Mr. flow,'of Eitlmm, both of whom had been players for n great many years, and would now be much missed by their fellow bowlers. Although the Avon Club was quite a young club, it had hot been without its own losses, one of its bqwlers, the late Mr .Tack Beits, a son of the club secretary, having died recently. Mr. Masters extended the heartfelt, sympathy of the members of the club to Mr. and Mrs, Betts, senr., and to the young widow. The funeral of the late Mr. Henry Weston took place yesterday morning, the burial being in St. Mary's churchyard. From the residence to the church the funeral was composed of relatives, close personal friends, and all the employees of Hie Herald, while there was assembled at the church a very large gathering of friends of the late Mr.' Weston. An intyresting feature of those present was the number of the older residents of the town—the contemporaries of the late Mr. Weston. On arrival at St. Mary's the cortege entered the church, where the first part of the burial service was conducted by the vicar (Hie Rev. F. (I. Ifarvie), and then the cortege moved to the buria-1 ground, where an impressive service was completed by the vicar. The bearers were: Messrs. T. S. Weston, 6. Weston, \V. .T. Penn. -J. Paton, G. Xeal, and A. P. Lister. A large number of floral tributes were piaced on the grave.