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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1942, Page 2

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Mr. Percy Douglass, New Plymouth, is seriously ill in a private hospital. Mr. Val. Duff, secretary of the Taranaki Employers' Association, left for Wellington yesterday. He will return to New Plymouth to-morrow night. Mrs. G. W. Sampson, district engineer of Public Works, returned to Wanganui yesterday after visiting Taranaki on official business. Mr. H. M. Boddington, who has been elected president of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, has been for many. years associated with the administrgtion of the game, 36 years in Wairarapa and for 20 years on the New Zealand oouncil. He was secretary of the Masterton Club and Wairarapa association for a long period. Dr. Kenneth A. Ross, son of the late Dr. K. Ross, of Dunedin, recently gained his M.B., Ch.B. degrees at Aberdeen University. He has been appointed house surgeon at Foresterhill Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, for six months. His brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. H. Glennie, are attached to Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex. Flight Lieutenant David Ross, a brother, is now etn instructor at Johannesburg. Mr. Harold G. Bell has been appointed associate editor of the New Zealand Herald, Auckland. Born at Timaru in 1893, a son of Mr. Robert Bell, he was educated at Canterbury College, where he graduated B.A., won the senior scholarship of the University of New Zealand in mental and moral philosophy, and was in 1914 exhibitioner in economics. He served in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade .from 1915 to 1919. From 1919 to 1922 he was a reporter for the Ashburton Guardian, successively reporter, sub-editor, Parliamentary correspondent, and chief reporter of the New Zealand Herald, 1922-29, associate editor of the Dominion, Wellington, 19291933, and since then leader-writer on the New Zealand Herald.