OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 11 September 1933, Page 19

OBITUARY

MR J. S. L. DEEM tPUESS ASSOCIATION TELKORAM.) WANGANUI, September 10. The death occurred on Mount Ruapehu to-day of Mr J. S. L. Deem, ■ city engineer, of Wanganui. Mr Deem, I with his wife and a friend, left the Chateau Tongariro early in the morning, and were climbing on the Whakapara Glacier. Mr Deem died after a heart seizure THE REV. P. J. COSSUM (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) PALMERSTON N., September 9. The death has occurred of the Eev. Percy J. Cossum, superintendent-minis-ter of the Sanson-Rongotea circuit of the Methodist Church, after a brief illness, at the age of 64. He had been 37 years in the ministry and was due to retire at the coming conference after three and a half years in his present circuit. Mr Cossum was very popular in the church and district. He was chairman of the school committee in the last year and oral examiner of candidates for the ministry in the Hawke's Bay-Manawatu Synod district. He leaves a widow and an adult family. The funeral will be at Wellington Monday. THE REV. C. PARKHURST

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION--BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received September 10, 8.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 9. A message from Atlantic City states that the Rev. Charles Parkhurst, aged 91, famous Presbyterian minister and reformer died of injuries to-day. He fell from a porch during the night while walking in his sleep. [Mr Parkhurst was at one time president of the Society for the Preven- '. tion of Crime, and his assertion that some of the' police were in partner - . ship with criminals, led to an investigation of the New York police by the 1 State Government.] CAPTAIN KOENIG (UNITED FRE9B ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.) ! (Received September 10, 9.36 p.m.) I BERLIN, September 9. The death has occurred of Capjain ; Koenig, commander during the war of ' the submarine Deutschland, the first submarine to cross the Atlantic.