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o. Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of : Agriculture, will open the annual con- ' ference of the South Island Dairy Association to be held at Dunedin on ' June 10. For the 15th successive year, Mr W. J. Holdsw’orth was re-elected chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board at the annual meeting. It is an office which he lias held since the board’s inception in 1922. The funeral took place at Wellington yesterday of Rev. T. Fielden-Tay-lor, City Missioner, whose death occurred on Saturday. A large gathering attended the funeral service in the mission, and many hundreds who could not sain admission waited outside. The cortege was a long one. Dr Markham Lee, English author and composer, is at present on his way to New Zealand to conduct the practical examinations on behalf of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London. Dr Lee is expected to arrive in New Zealand early in July, jnd is to commence his duties at New Plymouth on July 10. Mr John Johnson. M.A , of the Canterbury College staff, left by the Mariposa yesterday for the Uni,tcd States, where he will spend six months studying adult education as the holder of a Carnegie- Travelling Grant. Fie is accompanied by his wife, Mrs Dorothy Johnson, B.H. So , formerly of Auckland, who intends to | study phases of home economics and ; extension work. I I Mr W. J. Casey, of Stratford, re- • ceived advice at the week-end of the death of his brother, Mr John Michael Casey, aged 56, at Grovetown, Marlborough. The late Mr Casey had just returned from a football match at Pieton with the team of which he was coach, when he collapsed and died after entering his home. He was I widely known in Rugby circles as a 1 Marlborough representative forward, 1 a representative selector, a coach and I a member of the Rugby Union.