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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1938, Page 6

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Mr E. Fafeita, of Hukanui, will leave this week on a trip to Australia. The death occurred suddenly at Kilbirnie on Monday night of Mr Laurence Keelan McMurrich, chief engineer of the Union Steam Ship Company’s inter-island steamer Rangatira, at the age of 53 years. Dr Sydney Townend, Leeds, has been appointed to the staff of the New Zealand Wool Manufacturers’ Research Association. Dr Townend has had experience of wool manufacturing problems in both America and England. He is expected to arrive in New Zealand in September. He will inspect on his way improvements made in France, Poland and Belgium in wool machinery. Mi - W. Maxwell, manager of the Regent and Cosy Theatres at Masterton for the past twelve months, has received notice of his transfer. on promotion, to tire Regent Theatre. Palmerston North, and will commence duty there on July 16. Mr F. E. McCallum, formerly of Auckland, who has been manager of the Regent Theatre, Wanganui, for the past twelve months, has been transferred to Masterton.

The death occurred in Wellington on Monday of Colonel Alexander Reid Young, a former director of the Department of Agriculture. He had been in ill-health for some time. Born in Scotland in 1860, Colonel Young graduated at Edinburgh University, and, before coming to New Zealand in 1899, was inspector for the county council of Kincardineshire for eight years, and veterinary inspector for the corporation of Edinburgh for live years. Arriving in New Zealand. Colonel Young joined the Department of Agriculture in 1900 as veterinary surgeon, and was later transferred to the Defence Department, serving as a veterinary officer in the Fifth Contingent in the South African War. Upon his return to New Zealand he rejoined the Department of Agriculture, and was well known in Hawera, Wanganui and Wellington. When the Great War came. Colonel Young, then a major, offered his services in 191-1. and he became Assistant Director of Veterinary Services in the New Zealand forces in Egypt, Gallipoli and France. He was well known in Masterton, where he frequently addressed meetings of farmers.