OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21123, 26 March 1934, Page 12

OBITUARY

MR GABRIEL PRICE, M.P. rH'ITED mr. c S »=.= «i fi'IOK—BT ELICTaIO j li.E-.n w h -i-crisiGHi./ (Received March 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON*. March 24. The death has occurred of Mr 3abriel Price. M.P. He had been suf'ering from nerve?, and was recuperative at his son's home in Yorkshire ; ie went for a walk with his wife, vvhuni he suddenly told lo return home, savins:: "I shall return iatcr ■ic then ran down a side street. H.s .vife followed and found him ;trugehng m the river Calcicr. He ;ank before rescue was possible. IMr Gabriel Price was the Labour nember for Hcmsworth Division. V, est hiding. Yorkshire. He was the son ot i miner, and began work himself in a :oal mine at the age of 121 years. he was a member of his county •ouncil and of the Board of Governors »f the University of Sheffield. He was irst elected to the House of Commons "•n 19:11. At the time of his death h p vas 54 years of age I . VIR C. E. CHOLMONDELEY Mr Charles Edward Cholmondeley. ;econd son of Ihc Vcn. Archicacon Cholmondeley. died at St. George's Hospital on Saturday mornn- following an operation. Mr Cholmondeley was educated at :hrist's College, and after leaving ichooi entered the office of Messrs Duncan. Cottcrill. and Company, and >egan the studv of law. After his adnission as a solicitor, he practised at .Vaimate, and later at Christchurch. 3n the outbreak of the South African ,Var he joined the New Zealand Rough iiders as a sergeant, and during his | ;ervice in South Africa was awarded he Roval Humane Society's medal for | aving a follow soldier from drowning, i

fc—— ~——— I Mr C. V.. Cholmondley. wearing the uniform of Sergeant, Third Contingent, Rough Riders, South Africa, 1900. Returning from the war, he. look up . farming, first at Waimate, and later in I partnership with Mr Paul Sturiholme ! al Blaekmount. in Southland. ii# ' owned a farm at TJothorham, but nficr i some year:; left it to take up land at i I'ulii Puhi, near Kaikoura, where he j lived till his death. Air Oholmonriclcy was fix in hi.-. ' earliest \ ears very interested in sport. \ particularly in athletics. ]n two sue-' cessive years he won the Canterbury ; Amateur Athletic Cup. He was a keen j golfer, and was a member of the Kai- I koura Pacing Club. i ?.!:' Cholmondelev married Miss C. j Kay. a member *if the well-known > Kan Is.-, Peninsula family. He leaves a : widow and live children. i SIR (JKOIMiK PATON Private ad\ u e has been received in Wellington of the death of Sir George j Paton. chairman and managing director of the British Match Corporation, Ltd.. and of Bryant and Mav, Ltd., while on board ship travelling from the South of France. Born at Greenock m: August M. 1059. Sir George Paton was keenly interested in education and social welfare. During the war he was chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Match Control Hoard. He was also a member of Hie London Advisory Council of Juvenile Employment and a member of She council of the Industrial Welfare Society.