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Southland Times, Issue 18928, 30 April 1923, Page 4

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Mr A. H. Mackrell returned to Invercargill by Saturday night’s express after a few weeks’ business trip to Australia. A Sydney Press Association cable records the death of Mrs George Holdship, formerly a resident of Auckland. Mr Walter Nash, national secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party, is at present in Invercargill and is staying at the Hotel Cecil. A Press Association message from Christchurch says that Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., arrived from Wellington by Saturday's ferry steamer and went on to Oamaru. A message from Brussels states that the Prince of Wales received an ovation from a great crowd at the station as he drove away with King Albert.—Press Association. Dr. Roland Fulton, who has been studying surgery in England for some years, returned to Dunedin on Wednesday, accompanied by his wife. He intends to start in practice at once as a surgeon in conjunction with his father, Dr. Robert Fulton. At the opening of the Waiuku Cottage Hospital, the Hon. C. J. Parr on Saturday said (hat Dr. W. J. Mays, “the greatest product of modern surgical science” would visit New Zealand next February. Dr Mays is a resident of Rochester, Minnesota, (U.S.A.), and his hospital there employs over a hundred specialists. He is visiting New Zealand in connection with the annual meeting of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, to be held at Auckland. —Press Association. Mr C. N. Worsley, whose death in Brescia (Italy) was announced in Saturday's cables, was well known in art circles in New Zealand and particularly in Christchurch (wires the Christchurch correspondent of the Southland Times). He arrived here about. 25 years ago, but returned to England on two or three occasic-ns, the last time being about two years ago. He has pictures !in all the art galleries of New Zealand, three pictures in the Sydney gallery and I pictures in many of the galleries in England and on the Continent. Some time ago Mr i Worsley had one of his pictures of the i Wanganui river purchased by Her Majesty the Qjecn. Early his year Mr Worsley and his wife left England for Italy, where he intended spending several months sketching. Mr Worsley planned to return to New Zealand at the end of this year. Mr Woreleys “Mt. Sefton” in the Christchurch Art Gallery was given for the Red Cross on condition that the Society raised £lOO and similar gifts were made to other New Zealand galleries. Christchurch has two other paintings, a very bright Continental I market scene and a street in \ cnicc.