Major A. B. Ross Killed
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In Action
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, August 24.
NEWS has been received that Major A.
B. Ross, of the New Zealand Forces, was killed in action in Libya.
Major Ross was well-known in Samoa, where from 1923 to 1929 he occupied the positions of Assistant Secretary of Native Affairs, Assistant Secretary to the Ad ministration, Secretary of the Adminis tration, and ADC to the Administrator (Colonel S. Allen). In 1929 he was transferred to the Department of Exter nal Affairs, in Wellington, where he was in charge of Samoan affairs, and later he was appointed Assistant Secre tary of External Affairs. He was greatly interested in military matters and orga nised the Boy Scout movement among the Samoans.