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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1916, Page 5

Cable advice lius been received by the Minister for Defence that tlie New Zealand war correspondent, Mr. Malcolm Ross, is seriously ill. In the meantime Captain C. E. W. Bean, the Australian correspondent, is acting for Mr. Boss. Among tlie names mentioned by Viscount French for favourable notice foi gallant service in the field was that of Lieutenant Frederick A. Hellaby. He is one of four sons of Mrs, A. M. Hellaby, of Mountain Road, Auckland, who are on active service with the British forces in France. Until his departure for England some three or four years ago, lit was a solicitor on the staff of Messrs. Eeed, Bailey,, and Towle, of Auckland. Ho then went to Cambridge University for further study, and on arrival there became attached 'to the territorial section of the Sussex Regiment. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for activ« service, and was posted to the Devonshire Regiment, in which he became battery commander of a machiue-gun section. During the tremendous fighting iu Flanders some months age the public heard of him as acting as commander of the defence of HiE 60 for six days, and it may be his service in that responsible position that ha* won hiu hi* Dietenl «Utiao(ka> "" ,