OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23789, 7 November 1942, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR REG. HEALY

The death occurred in Australia recently of Mr Reg. Healy, who was at one time well known in New Zealand sporting circles, especially as a swimmer. A brother of the famous Australian swimming champion, Cecil Healy, who was killed in the last war, Mr Reg. Healy was himself a fine swimmer. He won the Australian 220 yards championship before coming to New Zealand, and in 1910 he won the New Zealand 220 yards championship. He was also champion of the Thorndon Swimming Club, Wellington, where he was associated with such swimming stalwarts as Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., Mr Fred. Roberts, Mr Cyril Brice, and Mr W. G. Morpeth in the hey-day of Malcolm Champion. A man of genial and modest disposition, Mr Healy was universally popular, and did much to promote enthusiasm for swimming in this country. For some time •Mr Healy lived in Christchurch, where he was manager for R. G. Dun and Company, and he held similar opsitions for that firm in Wellington and Brisbane. Some years ago he returned to Australia. There he was a grade tennis player and a keen golfer. When the present war broke out, he joined the Army Pay Department, "’.ith the rank of corporal, and his death occurred while he was on military service in Sydney. He was accorded a military funeral. While in New Zealand. Mr ■ Healy married Miss Henrys, daughter of Mr J. E. Henrys, well-known racing handicapper for many years. His wife and daughter and two grandchildren survive him.

MR A. F. H. SUTHERLAND

(P.S.S.) WELLINGTON, November fi The death has occurred, in his thirtyfifth year, of Mr Arthur Francis Humphries Sutherland, elder son of Mr and Mrs B. Sutherland, “Homewood,” Karori, Wellington, after two months’ illness. For the last 12 years he had been managing director of the SelfHelp Co-op., Ltd., and, National Distributors, Ltd., and he had taken a keen interest in the welfare of the employees of those firms. Born in Wellington in January, 1908, Mr Sutherland was educated at the Brooklyn School, Wellington College, and Waitaki Boys’ High School. He became a member of the New Zealand Society of Accountants by examination. On his own initiative he personally selected sites and opened 10 shops and a warehouse in Auckland within a month. He was then 21, and the following year introduced the concern in Otago, After that he became head of the organisation. The founding of the Sutherland Self Help Trust in July of last year was the suggestion of Mr Sutherland, who made the first grant of £SOOO. He was instrumental in introducing staff bonus and benefit schemes and giving financial assistance to members of the staff in the armed forces, and he arranged for the regular dispatch of parcels to men overseas. The sporting interests of Mr Sutherland included ski-ing—he was a member of the Aorangi and Ruapehu clubs —and yachting. He was a member of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club and the Miramar Golf Club. , Mr Sutherland was a brother of Mr John Sutherland, the sprint champion, and of Mrs N. R. Mackay, of Wellington.

ROHAN K. HUGHES

A particularly promising young scholar, Rohan K. Hughes, son of Mr and Mrs W. S. Hughes, St. Albans, died at St. George’s Hospital recently, at the age of 18 years. Rohan Hughes was educated at the Victory Memorial School and the Cathedral Grammar School, and gained a bursary for Christ’s College. In 1937 he won the Somes junior scholarship, a Tancred prize for literature, and won his coxing colours at rowing in the same year. In 1938, at the age of 14 years, he gained first place in the Somes junior scholarship, passed matriculation and the university entrance examination. In 1939 he gained his higher leaving certificate from Christ’s College, and captained a seventh grade football team. When 16 years of age he left Christ’s College and entered the university, taking a B.Sc. degree course, and passed the first section at the end of last year, being top of his year in chemistry. In 1940 he won the Corfe Memorial Prize for mathematics and the Barnett Memorial Scholarship. A short time before his death he was awarded the Institute of Chemistry prize. He took an active interest in sport, including rowing, tennis, and fives, and was a member of the Christchurch Badminton Association. Dr. H. G. Denham, rector of the Canterbury University College, when referring to the death of Rohan Hughes, said that this student had shown promise of an unusually brilliant career.