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A London cable says Lord Leopold Mount'batten, the King’s cousin, is in a critical condition, following on an operation for a long standing hip trouble.
Mr. E. Whittle, who has been in Christchurch for the part fortnight, returned to New Plymouth by the mail train on Saturday.
Mr. William Grant, New Plymouth, has been appointed a member of the Revaluation Committee for Taranaki for the year 1922. Mr. W. P. Kirkwood, of Stratford, left by the mail train on Saturday morning en route for America and England. He expects to be away about six months.
Mr. T. C. Brash, secretary to the National Dairy Association, who is visiting Taranaki m connection with matters in the dairy industry, arrived in New Plymouth on Saturday. A Whangarei message reports the death of Mr. Robert Thompson, member of the House of Representatives for Marsden, from 1877 to 1902. Mr. Thompson, who had been a resident of Whangarei for 52 years, was born in County Fermanagh, Ulster, in 1840. Mr. Frank Stephenson Smith, of Blenheim, ex-Commissioner of Crown Lands, and a brother of the late Mr. Percy Smith, arrived in New Plymouth on Friday night, too late, on account of the unsatisfactory ferry service across the Straits, to be present at his brother’s funeral.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1922, Page 4
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211PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1922, Page 4
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