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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1910, 22 May 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL

Air Owen AleKlroy is on a. visit to Auckland. Madame Beatrice Elliott (Airs M. J. Kilmartiu), an Auckland soprano, is doing very well in, New York. Mis s Dale Austen, better known as “Aliss New Zealand. 1927,”’ returned to New Zealand on the Aorangi, alter an uLsencc of live months. The condition of Sir Charles Sker. rett, who ■underwent a serious operation recently, is less satisfactory than it was when the last medical bulletin was issued. The death occurred last week from double pneumonia of Air A\ . Bell, a one-time noted Wellington Rugby footballer, who represented the. province from 1907 to 1914, playing in 31 rep. matches. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War and was 44 years age. Dr. F. AY. Dry, AT.Sc., who has been selected for the Chair of Agricultural Zoology at the Massey 'Agricultural College, has been specialising in Zoology at Leeds under Professor W. Oar,slang. He has also been associated a good deal with the Agricultural Department. His investigations have all had some hearing on agriculture.

An arrival from Sydney at Wellington yesterday by the Afakura was Colonel Dunlop Young, who, at the invitation of tho Government, ans come to the Dominion in order to investigate an cl report upon our export moat? Colonel Dunlop Young will carrv out similar work in Australia, after Ids New Zealand investigations.