OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21247, 20 August 1934, Page 12

OBITUARY

♦ MK K. N. WARD I 'fSIIKU l.uli S-1.l t 1.JT.1 IRK I i r.i.ron *i-ii -1 uvTi.ioiiT.; j i lli'irn ed August IS). ci.5U p.m.i | SYDNEY. August Ift. : Tin- death l'ia; occurred of Mr E. N. j Ward, aged 03, curator of (ho Sydney i Botanic Gardens and Centennial Park, (lie was horn in Yorkshire and was | well known in many parts of the i world. Though he had been ill, lie was I listening to the erieket broadcast, and | announced that he would stay up , until Bradman reached his double een- ! tury. He collapsed almost immediately j that happened | THE HON. MAURICE BRETT i i Received August 1!'. 11.5 p.m.' ; I.ondon'. Aui.:tisi i;;. i flic death has occurred of Lieutcni ant-Colonel the Hon. Maurice Brett. ! He collapsed while grouse shooting at i CaJlender. in Scotland, while his wife, Zena Dare, was aetinu in Glasgow. ; The news was withheld from her until after the performance, when r-hc ; motored to Callender. I The Hon. Maurice Brett was born in i;-;;>2. the second son of the second Viscount Esher. He entered the Coldstream Guards in 1902 and was aide- , de-camp to Sir John KreiMi from 100! to 1912. During the war he was I tour times mentioned in dispatches, j Since lf)l!) he has - been assistant-keeper | and librarian to the London Museum. | He wrote "Maxims of War." I SIR JOHN SULMAN (Rteeived August 19, 11.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 19. The death has occurred in London of Sir John Sulman, F.R.1.8.A, 'Sir John Sulman had been a t:oni suiting architect and town planner in 1 Australia and England for many years. ■ He was a member of the Town PlauI ning Institute, an Hon. Fellow of the I Institute of Architects, New South Wales, and an Associate Member ot' the Institute of Engineers, Australia. He I was 8") years old. I