OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19612, 7 May 1929, Page 11

OBITUARY.

MR J. W. SWANEY. Much regret was expressed by members of the Hydro-Electricity Branch of the P.W.D. in Christcburch and at Lake Coleridge oa the receipt of the news of the sudden death from heart failure, on Saturday last, of Mr J. W. Swaney, which occurred at Arapuni. Mr Swaney was held in high esteem by the officers of the Department and was well liked by all with whom he came in contact. After several years at the Lake Coleridge power station, latterly as first engineer, Mr Swaney was transferred to Mjmgahao, and then to Horahora as power-house superintendent. Becently he took up the position, on promotion, of power-house superintendent at Arapuni, where testing out of the machinery was in hand, when death claimed him. Two or three months ago when Mr Swaney last visited Christchurch he appeared to be in the best, of health. He was 39 of age, and leaves a wife and family.

LIEUT.-GBNBRAL THE HON SIR FREDERICK STOPFORD.

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LONDON, May 5.

The death has occurred of Lieut.General the Hon. Sir Frederick Stopford, who commanded the Ninth Corps at Suvla Bay. He was criticised by Sir lan Hamilton for failing to forestall the enemy occupation of the high ground on August 7th.—Australian Press Association, United Service. [General Stopford was a son of the 4th Earl of Courtown. He entered the Grenadier Guards in 1871, becoming a captain in 1884, and having risen to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel by 1894, when he served in Egypt as A.D.C. to Sir John Adye. He served in the fioudan as A.D.C. to Major-General Fremantle in 1884-85, being mentioned in dispatches, and was later military secretary to Sir Redvers Buller in South Africa. He was an Army commander during the war, in 1914-15, and Lieutenant of the Tower, 1912-16. He was aged 75 years.] COLONEL MAX BAUER. (Eeceived April 7th 1.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, April «. Colonel Max Bauer, Ludendorff's Chief-of-Staff during the Great War, died at the Shanghai isolation hospital from smallpox. Colonel Bauer a few months ago was appointed head of 30 German military experts, for the purpose of the reorganisation of the Nationalist Army at Nanking.—Australian Press Association.

SIR TUDOR VAUGHAN. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIMLXSS.) RUGBY, May 6. The Swedish destroyer Ehrenskold reached Sheerness to-day, bearing the body of Sir J. Tudor Vaughan, British Minister to who died suddenly a few days ago. The Ehrenskold was met by two British destroyers, the Trinidad and the Teazer, and escorted to the harbour. [Sir Tudor Vaughan had had considerable experience in the Diplomatic Service and other branches of public life He was in South Africa with Lords Roberts and Milner as Political Secretary. afterwards going to the Foreign Office, being stationed in variious parts of the world as Britain's representative. He was 59 years of age.]