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Mr. John Mallard, general manager of the National Insurance Company, is visiting New Plymouth. Dr. L. F. Corkill has been appointed honorary physician to the Wellington Hospital in place of Dr. Horrax, who died recently. Mr. W. H. Hales, who has been stationmaster at Palmerston North for the past six months, has received notice of his appointment as chief clerk in the district traffic manager’s office, Wellington. The French Government has conferred the Legion d’Honneur on General Sir Robert Baden-Powell in recognition of the educational and moral value of the Boy Scout movement, which, is flourishing in France. Mrs. C. H. Burgess tendered her resignation owing to ill health and pressure of work in other directions, from the New Plymouth Community Club, to yesterday’s meeting of the committee. The resignation was accepted with regret and it was decided to thank Mrs. Burgess for her past services and to ask to continue her connection with the club as a vice-presi-dent. People of South Taranaki will be grieved to hear of the death on Thursday, at Hawera, of Miss Pansy Florence Awatea, eldest daughter of the late Mr. AV. Betts, of Okaiawa, at the age of 21 years. This (says the Star), is the third sad loss from typhoid which the family ' has suffered within a few months, and sincere sympathy will be felt for Mrs. Betts and the remaining members of the family. 'Mr. Alfred Quaife, A.R.A.M., who is at present conducting music examinations in the Dominion for the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music, and the Royal College of Music, London, visited New Plymouth in that capacity on Saturday, and on Monday wfent to Waitara-. He left yesterday morning for the South, and will conduct examinations at other centres en route. Mr. Quaife visited New Zealand in 1920 as examiner for the Associated Board. Deep and widespread regret has been felt at the death of Miss Hurst, matron of Te Rangi Private Hospital, Nelson, which occurred last week. The late Miss Hurst received her training at Nelson Public Hospital, and was appointed matron to the institution, ■resigning some two years since to take over Te Rangi Hospital. She was also a prominent worker for the Plunket Society, and was a member of the committee.
In the death of Mrs. Henry Torlesse in her 87th year Canterbury has lost another of its early settlers. Miss Elizabeth Revell, as she then was, came out with her parents in 1851 in the ship Minerva. On the voyage she became acquainted with her future husband, who was sailing to New Zealand in the same ship with his uncle, Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Five years later the young couple were married, and lived at Rangiora for a time. On her husband’s ordination and appointment as first curate in charge of practically the whole of the Peninsula (with the exception of Akaroa) in 1859, they made Okain’s Bay their headquarters; this particular bay having a large population. The foundation of the present church at Okain was laid by Mrs. Torlesse in January, 1861. In 1864 the family removed to Christchurch, where the Rev. Torlesse was appointed chaplain of the gaol, hospital, and asylum, and Mrs. Torlesse helped him to establish the first refuge in Christchurch. A daughter of the late Mrs. Torlesse married Mr. C. H. Waterston, who is at present manager of the New Plymouth branch of the Union Bank of Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1922, Page 4
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