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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9696, 21 January 1910, Page 5

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Mrs Cole,. senior, of Cole street, who has been seriously ill for some weeks past, is now making satisfactory progress towards convalescence." Mr J. Georgeson, local Inspector-of Factories, left Mastertoo yesterday for Gisborne, owing to news of the serious illness of his mother. Mr A. Dona«d, of the Head Office Staff, Wellington, will relieve Mr Georgeson during his absence, " Dr Bernard C. Beale, one of Auckland's oldest and most widely known citizens, died on Sunday, aged seventy-nine years. Dr Beale, who was born in London in 1830, was educated at first privately and t< e 1 at the London Hospital Medical Cuikge. He was appointed medical officer to the London Board of Health in 1849. He passed his final medical examination in 1852, and in the same year he visited the West Indies and Demerara. tie was medical officer on the Earl of Belcarras, whicn carried troops to Bombay in the same year. He came to New Zealand in 1861, and on arnvial was app inted surgeon lo the Nelson Hospital, which position he held for three years--. He then went to Auckland, and f.r about twenty-five years resided in the Waikato district.