OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22308, 24 January 1938, Page 12

OBITUARY

MR ALFRED WILLIAMS

T)l „ Hnalh occurred on Friday, at the a Zoi nl-ears'of Mr Alfred WMtams. J P., a former member of the Cr.nst; huch City Council, and a life member of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association. Mr Williams was closely associated with xhe administration of the Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund for the Blind since ite inception, and at the time of his death held the position of deputy-chairman.

While he was a member of the City Council—he v.-as first elected about 1912—Mr Williams served as its representative on the Chrislchurch Fire Board. After many years' service on this body as the council's representative, he was later appointed the Government representative, . a position which he held until a few years ago. Through his association with the Pearson Memorial Fund he did much valuable work to assist the blind of the city, in whose interests he was a sympathetic and able worker.

MR C. B. MASSEY The death occurred at Sumner on Friday of Mr Charles Beeston Massey. Mr Massey was a well-known resident who lived at "Bella Vista," Stoke street. He was the oldest ratepayer in the borough, and one of the oldest parishioners of All Saints' Church, Sumner. , He was a resident of New Zealand for more than 50 years, and would have celebrated his eighty-first birthday in April. . He was born in Chester, England, in April, 1857, and on leaving school he was employed in the audit department of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company at Chester for 14 years. This company was-sub-sequently amalgamated with the London and "North-Western Railway Companv. Mr Massey came to New Zealand at the age of 28 by the s.s. Tongariro After living for a short time in Dunedin he came to Christchurch and joined his brother-in-law in business as wine and spirit merchants. Subsequently he was a representative of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and then he accepted an appointment as assistant inspector to the Christchurch City Council where he remained for 14 years until his retirement. He was for some years chief city inspector. An enthusiastic volunteer in his native city as a youth—he was for 13 years a member of the Second Battalion of the Earl of Chester's Rifle Volunteers—he joined the Christchurch City Guards when he took up residence in the city, and when he resigned his commission he was captain of the corps. . Mr Massey came of a musical familv and as a boy he was a chorister of the Chester Cathedral. He was able to recall a visit to the Cathedral of King George V and his brother, the Duke of Clarence, when they were about six and eight years old respectively. For many years Mr Massey was a member of the old Christchurch Musical Union, and he was one of the first members of the Christchurch Liedertafel. He sang in several church choirs, including St. Johns, Merivale, Papanui, and Sumner. He was a parishioner of All Saints Church, Sumner, for 43 years. In 1899 Mr Massey was elected to the Sumner Borough Council. . Mr Massey's chief hobby was his garden, and he was a frequent competitor in the Sumner Beautifying Association's garden competition. . Mr Massey married twice and is survived by his widow and two sons of his first marriage, Messrs R. C. Massey (Hamilton and S. V. Massey (Christchurch). Mr Massey will be buried at Papanui, and the funeral will take place at 2 p.m. to-day.

THE REV. DINSDALE YOUNG

(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELISS.* RUGBY, January 21. The Rev. Dinsdale Thomas Young, who has been minister at Westminster Central Hall since 1914, is dead. It is estimated that he preached 30,000 sermons. He was 76 years old. [The Rev. D. T. Young, who belonged to the Wesleyan Church, in addition' to his regular pastorate, conducted services and delivered lectures every week in all parts of the United kingdom, travelling, on an average, 10,000 miles a year, and also doing considerable literary work.]

M. EMILE COHL

PARIS, January 21. The death has occurred of M. Emile Cohl, aged 81, the inventor of coloured cinematograph cartoons, perfected by Walt Disney. He died in poverty and obscurity in a public hospital.

MR WILL DYSON

LONDON, January 21. The death has occurred of the cartoonist, Will Dyson. [William Henry Dyson was born in Ballarat, Australia, in 1883, and educated in Melbourne. He started drawing for the "Bulletin" and drew many caricatures of Australian celebrities, becoming one of the greatest cartoonists of his time in Australia. He went to London for the "Daily Herald," and his war cartoons attracted the greatest attention, England's greatest writers paying tribute to his powers. He was the first Australian, artist to be commissioned by the Commonwealth to go to the front to make sketches of the A.1.F., and he is represented by a large number of works in the Australian War Museum. Returning to Australia, he was for a time cartoonist for the Melbourne "Herald," but he returned to the "Daily Herald," London, in 1931. He married in 1910 a daughter of Dr. Lindsay, of Creswick, and a sister of the famous Lindsay brothers. She died in 1919. There is one daughter of the marriage.]

MAJOR W. T. B. MCCORMACK (Received January 24, 12.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 23. The death occurred to-day, after a short illness, of Major William Thomas Bartholomew McCormack. the chairman of the Victorian Country Roads Board, who returned recently from a tour of America. Major McCormack had been chairman of the board since 1928. Under

his direction Victoria acquired a repu tation as the best-roaded state ini £ u tralia. His policy was to proviae road to every farmers' door. _-. He began his career as ai shire «v gineer, later joining the Public ww»Department.