OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 28, 2 February 1928, Page 3

OBITUARY.

MK. T. W. ROWE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH; this day. Mr. T. W. Rowe, a •well-known barrister and scholar, is dead, aged 65 years. Born at Christchurch, he graduated from Canterbury College in 1886, and was appointed headmaster of Rangiora High School. After seven years he resigned that position to become chief librarian at Wellington. In 1904 he resigned his post and in 1906 he passed his barrister's examination. He became first assistant lecturer in law at Canterbury College, and then lecturer and director of studies, until 1924. !Mr. Rowe was a well-known bibliophile and although he lost his library of 5500 volumes in a fire in Wellington in 1901 he built up another. He also had a very large collection of gramophone records, and gave many recitals. He was a lavpreacher of the Church of England, a pamphlet writer, and an enthusiastic cyclist.

MR. PERCY WHITE. The funeral took place yesterday at \\ afkaraka Cemetery of Mr. Percy White, who died while attempting save the life of a child who fell off the Cornwallis wharf on Monday. The funeral cortege consisted of 26 motor cars, and the casket was draped with the Lnion Jack. A tribute to the sterling qualities of the deceased soldier, was made by Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P., at the residence of Mr. C. White, senior, before the funeral took place. He said the deceased joined the army when he was 18 years of age, aiid was sent to France with the 14th Eeinforcements. He reached the rank of corporal and had been recommended for promotion when he was seriously wounded at Messines and invalided home. Before the war he had been employed by ilr. J. E. Cowell, ironmonger, of Onehunga, but was unable to resume his position. When he returned from the war he assisted his father to run the launches Awhitu and Callie, and it was when he was about to bring back a party of campers in the Callie from Cornwaliis that the tragedy occurred.

Mr. Percy White was a keen footballer. He played before the war in the Manukau Rovers and was a prominent member of army teams during his war service. He married Miss Charlotte Mahon in 1920 and leaves his wife and two daughters, aged six and four years. An inquest was opened by Mr. D. A. Sutherland, J.P., district coroner, and adjourned sine die. A post mortem made by Dr. MacCormick led him to form the opinion that death was due to heart failure. The funeral service at the grave aide was read by the Rev. F. Sedgwick.

The attention of pupiTs or tlie Auckland Grammar School is drawn to an advertisement asking them to assemble at the Heme Bay tram terminus to pay their last tribute of respect to their late headmaster.