OBITUARY.
TWO DOCTORS DIE ON SAME DAY. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) NEW PLYMOUTH, November 17. Two former superintendents of the New Plymouth Hospital, Dr. H. B. Leatham, and !D)r. E, A. Walker, died to-day. • Dr. Leatham was the oldest doctor in Taranaki. He served the Taranaki Hospital Board for 54 vears. He was a fine athlete and captained the Rugby team of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. (Dr. Walker was prominent in boxing, swimming, ancl Association football. He won the New Plymouth Golf Club’s first championship. MR CHARLTON SIMON FRASER. (Per Press Association). TIMARTJ, November 17. Mr Charlton Simon Fraser diet! tonight, aged 87. He was closely identified with the early life in Timaru. particularly sport. He was a son of Judge John Fraser, of the Supreme Court at Hong Kong. Educated in England he came to New Zealand as a. young man, taking up a commercial career. For many years he was secretary of the South Canterbury Jockey Club and was the founder of one of the first Rugby clubs in New Zealand. For one season he was New Zealand lawn tennis champion, defeating F. C. Wilding the father of the late Anthony Wilding. Mr Fraser was an i«rdent philatelist, at one time possessing one of the finest collections in the Dominion.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 33, 18 November 1939, Page 4
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