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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 51, 30 January 1932, Page 6

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Their Excellencies .the Governor General and Lady Bledisloe will leave Auckland on Monday for a fortnight s stay at the Bay of Islands. On February 18 they will* return to Wellington. , • Rev. H. Sinclair, curate of Okato, has ben appointed priest-in-charge of Ngaruawhia. . Mr and Mrs E. Barv, who spent their summer vacation at Tongaporutu, have returned to Palmerstoja North. Mr John Murray, principal of the Palmerston North Boys’ High School, who has been on a visit to Dunedin, has returned to Palmerston North. Mr F. Williams, leader of the Down and Out Mission in Auckland, arrived in Palmerston North to-day and will deliver addresses in local churches to-morrow. The friends of Mr H. C. Baker, of 99 Fitzherbert Avenue, will, regret to learn that he was taken seriously ill last Saturday evening. He has been confined to bed and is progressing slowly. Mr Earle Campbell, second son of Mrs N. H. Mackie, and the brother of Mr A. N. Campbell, of Palmerston North, is suffering from two broken legs and thigh injuries caused through the parting of an anchor cable, state# advice received from Christmas Island. Mr Campbell is now reported to be doing well, but it is considered that this has ended his career at sea. Mr Campbell was second officer of . one of the Eastern Extension Cable Company’s boats when the accident happened. •' Mr William Machin, of Christchurch, vice-president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, was yesterday at a meeting of the executive of the association in Wellington, elected president in succession to Mr C. M. Bowden, of Masterton, who recently resigned office owing to pressure of business. Mr Machin is a past president of the Canterbury Chamber of-** Commerce and is the present chairman of the economics committee of that body. He represented the Associated Chambers of Commerce _at the 1931 congress of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, held in London. He is a past president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand and immediately prior to this appointment was vice-president. . The death took place this week in Dargaville of Mr Eric Manley Clarke, for many years a dentist' in the town, who retired recently. Born at Southampton 74 years ago, Mr Clarke was the Becond son of Colonel Alexander Ross Clarke, R.E., F.R.S., ’F.R.A.S. Mr Clarke was educated at Eton ana came to New Zealand in. 1878 on the ship Albion. From 1880 to 1884 he was master in mathematics at Lincoln Agricultural College, Canterbury, and was "an assistant master at Wanganui Collegiate School from 1888 to 1896. W_hilo in Wanganui Mr Clarke studied dentistry and qualified as a surgeon dentist in 1899. Subsequently he practised his profession at Feilding, Kimbolton •, and Norsewood before going to Dargaville in 1920. He was actively interested in the Boy Scout work, was a past master of the Tongariro Masonic Lodge, and for a number of years was lay reader at St. John’s Anglican Church, Feeding. Mr Clarke was married first in 1884, but his wife died four years later. In 1901 he married Miss Edith Marion Knowles, of Palmerston North. He is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters.