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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 6

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The estate of the late Mr Francis Noel DiUon, a prominent Marlborough pastoralist and owner of the Leefield sheep station, has been sworn at under £70,900.

Sir Earle Page, Deputy-Prime Minister of Australia, who has been visiting the Dominion, left Wellington on his return to Sydney yesterday by the Maunganui. The death occurred in Sydney yesterday of Mr George H. Taubman, well known in Australia and New Zealand as the founder of Taubmans, Ltd., paint manufacturers. He was aged 76. Mr W. M. Sellar, of the firm of Messrs Sellar and Sellar, public accountants and auditors, Masterton, has received advice of his admission as an Associate of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New 'Zealand. ■ « A New Zealander, Dr M. A. Falconer, Dunedin, has been nominated as one of the first two holders of Nuffield fellowships at the Nuffield Medical School, Oxford University. Two such scholarships are to be awarded annually between the seven universities of South Africa, Australia', and New Zealand. The retirement from the Public Service of Mr S. J. Smith, late Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, is announced. Mi’ Smith is retiring on superannuation at his own request after a long official career extending over nearly 40 years, the last 23 years having been associated with the Islands Territories, of which he has a unique knowledge. Dr Russell Fraser, M.R.C.P. (London), son of Mr Malcolm Fraser, Wellington, has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship on the recommendation of the Medical Research Council, London. The fellowship is tenable for a year and Dr Fraser proposes to work at centres in the United States in the special field of psychiatry, neurology and related subjects. Dr Fraser was educated at Scots College, Wellington, and graduated M. 8., Ch.B., at Otago University. He is at present assistant-medical officer at the Maudsiey Hospital, Denmark Hill, London