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Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 11

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The Anna P. Stout scholarship at the University of Otago, which was established in 1920 by Lady Stout, has tins year been awarded to Miss A. S. Aslin. Miss Aslin will undertake research in connection with the homo science department. Mr Walter Gow is at present nn inmate of the Staflord iiospilni. -At the meeting of the Harbour .Board last night, Mr H. K. Moller reported that Mr Gow was progressing well after an operation. The Harbour Board la-t night welcomed hack Air IV, J. Bardsley, the secretary, after a. spell of convalescence at Rotorua.' The chairman remarked that Mr Bardsley was much improved in health, and members hoped that the improvement would be maintained. Mr S. F. Benton, recently manager of Braithwuite’s, has_ bought a drapery business at Hastings, and to-day went away again alter a short visit to Dunedin. Airs J. F. M. Fraser was seen , off at the railway station lids morning, being booked by the Tahiti lor her return to San Francisco.Mr Cecil Victor Chavc, the railwayguard who escaped mortal injury when the engine fell into a. wash-out near Salisbury, is suffering from shock, and confined to his home in Wesley street, South Dunedin.

Theatregoers of the older generation will regret to learn of the death on January 9, on Long Island, New York, of Mr Walter Howe, a well-known actor. Air Howe was, some thirty' years ago, with the old Bland Holt Company, which used to visit New Zealand regularly every year. He will he remembered as having played the heroic roles in such fine old plays as ‘ Now Babylon,’ ‘ Lost in .London,’ ‘ The World,’ ‘ London Day by Day,’ ‘ The Bells of Hazlemere,’ ‘The Golden Ladder,’ and ‘ Alas ter and Alan.’ Subsequent to Mr Holt’s retirement from the theatrical arena, Air Howe toured New Zealand with Miss Hilda Spang. He had ..been in America for the last twontv-ffve years, having only' retired in 1926.

A Nelson Press Association telegram announces the death of Air Alexander Thomson, one of the pioneer settlers of Alurchison who took a prominent part in tho public life of the district.