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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 September 1935, Page 6

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Mr H. G. Dickie, M.'P., will arrive in Auckland on Thursday by the Mataroa on his return to NeAv Zealand from the conference in London of the British Empire Parliamentary Association. He is expected to reach Hawera by the iiight express from Auckland on Friday morning.

Advice was received in HaAvera to-day of the death early this morning of Mr Ralph Webster, of Auckland. The late Mr Webster, avlio was a. brother-in-law of Mrs Frank Lacey and Miss Margaret Smith, of Hawera, AA-as knoAA-n to many people in South Taranaki. He came out from Scotland in 1920 and after a short residence iu Hawera Avent to Auckland, where he- joined Mr Balfour Irving in business as an optician, subsequently becoming a xiartner in the firm. He and his AA r ife A\ r ere annual visitors to Hawera and Ohave during the summer holidays. A distinguished passenger by the Marama, Avhicli arrived at Auckland yesterday, was Dr. A. 13. Walkom, secretary of the Linncan Society and honorary general secretary of the Australian and Noav Zealand Association for the Advancement, of Science, Avho has come to New Zealand to arrange for the science congress to be held here in 4937. The last- occasion on Avliich the congress was held in New Zealand was in 1923 at Wellington. Some 209 Australian scientists and 41)0 from Noav Zealand attended. Dr. Walkom, Avho is a well-known geologist, said that the Linnean Society AA-as a natural history organisation backed by a large endowment left by the late Sir William MacLeay. The doctor is only making a flying A-isit to Auckland and will return to Australia on Friday by the Monterey.