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Evening Star, Issue 19804, 1 March 1928, Page 4

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MINISTERIAL. Mr A. D. M'Lcocl (Minister of Lands) and Mrs M'Leod will arrive in 'Dunedin to-morrow evening. Sir .Joseph Ward, M.P., arrived in Dunedin last evening, and will leave for Invercargill by the second express to-day. Mr 11. Tassio (Chief Secretary lor South Australia) and Mrs Tassic are expected to arrive in Dunedin on Monday. Miss M. 1. Turnbull, lecturer in classics at the University of Otago, returned to Dunedin yesterday afternoon after an absence of live months, having’ spent the greater part of the time m Greece. Mr F. S. Dyson, who took up his duties as Public Works engineer in (Large of the Otago district on Saturday last, is at present making a round of inspection of the works under Ins control. Ho will return to Dunedin to-morrow for the purpose of meeting the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public Works, arid lie expects to accompany the Ministers to Central Otago. A well-known resident of Green Island (Mr William Orr Smcllic) passed away yesterday at the age of seventytwo* years. Mr Smcllic, who was man-led in the Old Country to Miss Annie Rowbottom, of Manchester, came to Otago with his two brothers in 18Bd. They settled in Green Island, and started the iron works which are now widely known as the Otago Iron Rolling Iflills, of which Mr Smellie was a director at the time of his death.' Mr Smellie was prominent in church affairs, holding office as an elder in the Green Island Presbyterian Church. He was also a member of the local bowling club, but, through illness, he had been unable to take an active part in the game for a year or so. Mr Smellie is survived by bis wife and a family of three daughters and two sons—Mrs F J. Lough (Musselburgh), Mrs W. A. Dawson (Dunottar)Miss Doris Smellie, Mr John Smellie (Green Island), and Mr Claude Smellie {Christchurch).