OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21319, 12 November 1934, Page 7

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN A. J. BLACKMORB The death occurred on Thursday night of Captain Arthur Jacques Blackmore, a well-known and popular figure in marine circles, both in Wellington and other ports of the Dominion. Captain Biackmore was born in Nelson in 1862. The sea called him at any early age, and by the time he joined the Wellington Harbour Board staff in November, 1904, he had risen • to the position of master mariner and was a well-Known figure m the coastal tra>3e. He joineu the harbour board staff as third signalman at Beacon Hill He rose to the position of chief signalman and held this post for several years, tianlly retiring from service with the harbour board at the end of August, 1928. MR IVY LEE (UMITEB PUISB A.B3OCIiTIO»—»X ELBCTBIC TELEGRAPH- COI'TIUGHT.) NEW YORK, November 9. Mr Ivy Lee died to-day from ■ iLimour on the brain. Mr Ivy Ledbetier Lee, the most famous public relations counsel in the world, was born in Georgia in 1877, and educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities. He was employed by Mr John D. Rockefeller to reestablish him in public opinion after many attacks had been made upon him. He was also adviser in public relations to big railway and steel companies. From 1917 to 1919 he was assistant to the chairman of the Red Cross War Council. He was a prominent lecturer and wrote a number of pamphlets and a number of books. In an investigation of Nazi activities in the United States in July, it was stated that Mr Lee. after the Nazi revolution, had acceped a retainer of 25,000 dollars a year from the German Dye Trust to publicise the new regime. Later, however, he met members of the Nazi Cabinet, and he said it was he who coined the phrase "equality of armaments." which became the keynote of Germany's arme policy.