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Grey River Argus, 9 November 1949, Page 4

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The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at the Karoro cemetery of Mrs Maud Ethel Morant. There were a large number of friends present. The Rev. K. G. Aubrey officiated at the services at Bellamys chapel and the graves de.

At. Auckland yesterday, a 12-year American Indian. David Lawrence Smith, a direct descendant of a long line of Mohawk chiefs in Canada, stepped ashore from the liner Aorangi wearing a picturesque dress of an Indian chief. He is an ambassador of goodwill from the chiefs of six nations of Indians to “the king of the Maori race’’ and carries a message and gifts.

Tne New Zealand representative cricketer, J. A. Hayes, is still a patient in the Wellington Hospital, where he was admitted when the L,uiing team returned. His condition is unchanged. He is permitted to receive visitors, but the hospital authorities give no indication as to when he will be able to return home.

William McLean, an apprentice jockey aged 19 died in Christchurch. Hwwtal at 12-45 yesterday, one hour after he was admitted w’th injuries suffered in a fall from Balkis near the five furlongs post, during the running of an open seven furlongs sprint at race trials in Riccarton during the morning. His father Mr R. M. McJww : esides 'Vi Reel''in. M ’Lcan

was apprenticed to the Riccar ton trainer Mr V. A. Lee, 83, Middle Park Road. Balkis apparently slipped and '

The Bledislco Medtt! for material assistance to farming in Ne v Zealand has been awarded this year to Mr William Cunningham Stafford, of Timaru, an officer of the Department of Agriculture. In nearly 20 years’ service in South Canterbury, he has helped the district to achieve a national reputation for pasture improvement, outstanding seed production and certificatffin, general cropping and experimental irirgation. Mr Stafford entered Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, in 1924, and took his diploma in 1926. After a year’s general farming experience he joined the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture at Blenheim in 1927, was transferred to Christchurch in. 1928, and worked in North Canterbury for three years. It was in 1931 that he became sole field officer in the new South Canterbury district of the Department, and since then he has declined promotion because of his love for the work developed there. —Press Assn.