OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 12

OBITUARY

MR H. R. DIX (THE PRESS Special Service,] BLENHEIM, August 19. After a comparatively brief illness, the death took place at Lewisham Hospital, Christchurch, last night, of Mr Herbert Ross Dix, of Blenheim. The news caused, deep regret among the business community of Blenheim, and the many friends with whom Mr Dix was closely associated. Mr Dix left for the south a fortnight ago on I a holiday visit, and was later admitted to the hospital with a sprained ankle. Complications developed and subsequently it was found necessary to amputate a leg. Mr Dix was 62 years of age. Born in Victoria, he came to New Zealand with his parents when a boy, the family settling at Wellington. He spent an unusually varied life. Employed in his younger days in a newspaper office, later he was engaged in the grocery trade, and at one time established a business in America. He returned after about two years and then became associated with the motor industry, conducting garages at various centres, and it was in this connexion that he became so widely known in Blenheim, where he had lived for the last 13 or 14 years. He took a keen interest in local affairs, being prominently connected, among other organisations, with the Aero Club, the Boxing Association, the Automobile Association, and the Rotary Club. 1 There are two sons, Flying Officer F. R. Dix, of the New Zealand Air Force, Sockburn, and Mr C. C. Dix, Blenheim. BRIGADIER C. L. ROME (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) {Received August 19, 5.3 p.m.) LONDON, August IS. The death has occurred of Brigadier Charles Leslie Rome. D.S.O. [Brigadier Rome, who was the son of Mr Charles Rome, of Queensland, was bom in 1878, and educated at Harrow. He joined the Eleventh Hussars in 1898. and served during 1902 in the South African War with the Imperial Yeomanry, being awarded the Queen’s Medal with two clasps. From 1908 to 1911 he was aide de camp and military secretary to the GovernorGeneral of Australia, and. in 1914 and 1915 adjutant of the Lovat Scouts. In 1918 and 1919 he was temporary Lieu-tenant-Colonel of the Third Dragoon Guards, being mentioned in dispatches and being awarded the D. 5.0., with bar. He was appointed LieutenantColonel in 1919, and Colonel in 1924. He commanded the Cavalry Brigade in Egypt for four years, and was appointed Assistant-Director of Remounts at the War Office-in 1929, retiring in 1933,3