The Last Post!

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 45, 22 February 1941, Page 4 (Supplement)

The Last Post!

W. P. Guiney, One of Five

Canterbury Brothers.

Hie recent death of a well-known New Zealand sportsman in tlie person of Mr. Wilfred Patterson Guiney, at the age of removes one of live Virol hers who took a prominent part in Canterbury sport. All were educated at C'hristchurch Boys' High School. Two are on the staff of th<> "X'ew Zealand Herald" (Les and Charles), the eldest, Douglas, is racing editoj- of the "Dominion" at Wellington, and the other survivor, A. If. ("Barney"), is school teaching in Canterbury.

All five performed ably on the cricket and football field for High School, W. T\ ("Bill"). A. 11. and Charles playing with conspicuous success against Auckland Grammar School in HeathcoteWilliams Shield contests.

"Bill," who wus editor of the Thames 'Star' for four years before coming to live at .No. 0, Essex Street, Mount Kden, was a member of the Biecarton Cricket ( l ubs XI., which won the Canterbury senior championship shortly before the b>t war. Later he played for SydenI .nn and again was in a champion ■'I . He was five-eighth for the

Christcliurch Rugby XV., and gained B representative honours. Migrating to Sydney, Bill took up the thirteen-a-side game, and upon returning to New Zealand he represented the Dominion as a wing - three-quarter against Harold Wagstaffe's 1920 English team at Lancaster Park. Mr. Guiney, who served with the Divisional Ammunition Column of the Australian Imperial Force, is survived by his wife, two sons (aged 13 and 3) and a daughter of 12.

Old Lady (icily): Do they allow drunken people to travel on these buses? Drunk: Not as a rule, lady, but if you sit there and keep quiet nobody'll notice.