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Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 4

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Mrs. John Ross, president of the Whangarei District Federation of Women’s Institute, has left to attend the Dominion Conference. The death occurred at the Auckland Infirmary, yesterday afternoon, of Mr Arthur Lloyd, aged 76. Mr Lloyd was a former member of the Devonport Borough Council, and took part in the landing of the Expeditionary Force at Samoa. The death of Mr James Steel, at one time a well-known journalist, and a foundation member of the Auckland Journalists’ Union, occurred in a private hospital at Helensville on Friday. He was predeceased by his wife, and has left no family. A descendant of one of the original [families to settle on Pitcairn Island, Mr Lorenzo Crosby Adams, died on Tuesday at his home at Devonport, after a long illness. Mr Adams, who was 47 years of age, was born on Norfolk Island, his mother being a granddaughter of Fletcher Christian. Mr Adams left Norfolk Island as a young man to go to sea, and for a time served in the cable ship Recorder, formerly the Iris, making Auckland his home port. On the outbreak of the war he joined the Auckland Mounted Rifles, serving in Egypt and Palestine for four years before he was invalided out of the Jordan Valley with malarial fever. He is survived by his wife and one son.