OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 97, 5 February 1936, Page 6

OBITUARY.

COMMANDER CECIL ALWIN. (United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. Commander Cecil Alwin died suddenly at Folkestone, aged 60. He had just" retired from the Peninsular and Orient Line service. He will be buried at sea. MR H. E. MOLLER. DUNEDIN, February 3. A life of generous and unselfish service to the West Harbour Borough ended this morning, when Mr Hagbarth Ernest Moller died in Prospect House, at the age of 66 years. For nearly forty-five years Mr Moller was one of the best-known and most widely respected figures in local body affairs in Otago, for he devoted a great measure of his energies to the advance ment of the district in which he spent sixty years of his life. Mr Moller had a highly commendable record of public service. From the time when he was quite a young man his services were placed at the disposal of ratepayers in the borough of West Harbour, and for the greater part of more than forty years he was associated with the council, either as Mayor or as an ordinary member. At the time of his death Mr Moller was a member of the Otago Harbour Board. Mr Moller was an uncle of Mr C. E. Moller, of Ashburton.