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Taranaki Daily News, 5 May 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. A. W. Buxton, the well-known landscape architect, of Christchurch, is visiting New Plymouth. Mr. R. Masters, M.P., left by the mail train for Wellington yesterday, on business connected with his electorate. Mr. T. C. List, president of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce, left for Aiickland by the mail train yesterday, en route to Australia, on holiday. Mr. W. M. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, arrived in New Plymouth last evening, on a short visit connected with departmental business. He returns south to-day, en route to Wellington. Mr. Justice Salmond, who represented New Zealand at the Washington Conference, left Sydney yesterday by the Manuka for Wellington (says a cable cable from Sydney).

Mr. E. Hiam, agricultural adviser to the British Empire, sailed from Sydney yesterday for Wellington (reports a cable from Sydney. A Sydney cablegram reports the death of the Rev. Charles Bice, Melanesian missionary, and formerly for many years secretary of the Australian Board of Missions. His wife was a daughter of Archdeacon Maunsell, a Maori scholar, and died in 1920.

A Pahiatua message reports the death of Mr. John Dick, aged 88. He was a farmer from Aberdeen, arrived on the Blue Jacket at. Lyttelton in 1800, and lived first at Kai apo i and Sefton, and then in the Pahiatua district for 34 years. He left two sons and three daughters. Mr. R. H. Pigott, chairman of the Clifton County Council, was a passenger by the mail train yesterday for Wellington, where he will interview the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Works on matters of interest to the ratepayers in the county. He was accompanied by Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P. Private advice received by cable at Hokitika conveyed the news of the death in South Africa, on April 24, of Mr. Stanley Northcroft, eldest son of Mr. Leo Northcroft, of South Africa, and formerly proprietor of the “West Coast Times.” The deceased, who was born in Hokitika, was 42 years of age, and went to South Africa with his parents some 20 years ago. His mother is at present in South Westland, staying with another son, Mr. George North-