OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24603, 27 June 1945, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR C. MCCULLY Mr Charles Samuel McCully,: who died in the Christchurch Public Hospital recently at the age of 63, was a well-known sportsman, having been connected with Rugby football and the development of athletics in Canterbury. Mr McCully, who was a veteran of the Boer War, stood for the Christchurch South seat for Parliament as a United Party candidate in 1928, and again for the Coalition in 1931, being defeated on both occasions by Mr E. J. Howard. A keen athlete in his youth, Mr McCully competed in the three mile New Zealand distance championship in 1907 at the New Zealand Exhibition. For many years he played for the Christchurch Rugby Football Club and was later a vice-president - Mr McCully was a member pf the Canterbury Rugby Union for a long time, and a vice-president, and served as a selector for a Canterbury representative team. Be-was a member of the Lancaster Park Board of Control from 1923 to 1931. He was a former president of the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Athletic Association, and an enthusiastic supporter of amateur athletics. Mr McCully guaranteed the funds that ensured tiie services of a United States coach, Mr A. L. Fitch. Mr McCully played hockey for the Christchurch Club, and represented Canterbury in the sport He was also a rowing enthusiast. A prominent member of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association and the North Canterbury Timber Merchants’ Association, Mr McCully was for several years president of the latter association. He is survived by his wife, Mrs Margaret McCully, two brothers, Messrs H. S. McCully (Spotswood) and F. F. McCully (Christchurch), and three sisters, Mesdames C. Balnbridge (Opawa), E. Craighead (Spotswood), and J. Dixon (Gore). A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mr McCtully was carried at a meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union last evening. -Mr A. E, McPhail said Mr McCully was a sportsman in the true sense of the word. He, was mainly responsible for the erection of the members’ grandstand—known as the McCully stand—at Lancaster Park. Mr McPhail moved that it be a re.commendation to the Lancaster Park Board of Control that the grandstand be officially designated the McCully Grandstand, and that a brass plate, so inscribed, he placed in a prominent position on the stand. MR T. M. B. MUIR (P.A.) . DUNEDIN, June 26, The death occurred to-day at the age of 94 of Mr T. M. B. Muir, who was enrolled as a pupil of the Otago Boys’ High School on the day on which the school was opened. He was for a time in the service of the Telegraph Department, but was better l known as a photographer in Dunedin under the style of Muir and Moodie, and later on his own account in Invercargill. In his younger days he was an accomplished gymnast and amateur billiards player.