OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 3

OBITUARY

THE RT. REV. W. WYNN JONES The Rt. Rev. W. Wynn Jones, Bishop in Central Tanganyika, died recently, according to advice received in Christchurch yesterday. Bishop Wynn Jones, who was in his fiftieth year, was appointed Bishop in Central Tanganyika in 1947. He visited New Zealand in September that year, and was well known here. Bishop Wynn Jones was born in Wales. He was ordained priest in Sydney in 1925. Bishop Wynn Jones’s first appointment after being ordained was as curate of Dulwich Hill. The first appointment Bishop Wynn

Jones had in Tanganyika was as headmaster of the Arusha school for Europeans in 1933. In 1941 he was appointed Chancellor of the diocese of Central Tanganyika, and from 1943 to 1947 he was assistant bishop. The diocese of Central Tanganyika was founded in 1927, and in 1947 Bishop Wynn Jones succeeded the first bishop (the Rt. Rev. G. A. Chambers), who had resigned after 20 years’ service. Bishop Wynn Jones was consecrated as assistant Bishop in Central Tanganyika at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, in 1943.

MR N. R. SEDDON (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. May 31. The deaths of Mr N. R Seddon. one of Wellington's most prominent citizens in local body, educational, and church affairs, occurred at the Wellington Hospital this morning. He was 49. Mr Seddon was admitted to hospital last night after an illness that eveloped last Thursday when he collapsed

at his home shortly before he was to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Education Boards’ Association at which he was re-elected chairman. Mr Seddon. who was born and educated at Wellington, was a grandnephew of Mr Richard Seddon, a former Prime Minister of New Zealand. He was chairman of the Wellington Education Board, a member of the Wellington College Board of Managers and the Wellington College Board of Governors. He also served on the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, the Wellington Health Camp Committee, and the Y.M.C.A. Council. Mr Seddon was prominently associated with various activities of the Methodist Church, being the secretary of the Methodist Church Dominion Youth Board and a foundation member of the New Zealand Council for Religious Education. He was a candidate for the Wellington Mayoralty at the last municipal elections and was Labour candidate for the Mount Victoria seat at the last General Election. Mr Seddon is survived by his wife and one son.

MR W. BRYANT

Mr William Bryant, who died at his home. Carter’s terrace. Tinwald, yesterday, at the age of 84. took a notable part in local affairs, and had many long associations with various organisations.

Elected to represent the Tinwald town district on the Ashburton Hospital Board in 1923. he remained on the board until he retired in 1944. being chairman for four years. He also represented the board on the Waipiata Sanatorium Committee for 18 years. Mr Byrant served as the Tinwald representative on the Ashburton Electric Power Board from 1928 until his death. He was chairman “of the Tinwald Domain Board for 26 years until his death, and was also a member of the Tinwald Town Board for a period. A foundation member of the Loan and Investment Society, he had the remarkably long term of 39 years as chairman of directors of the society. Mr Bryant was also a director of the Canterbury Roller Flour Milling Company.

He was the oldest living member of the Ashburton Trotting Club, and was a member of the committee since 1911 and a vice-president for 24 years. He was also a member of the Ashburton County Racing Club, the Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and the former Unemployment Committee. He was associated for 20 years with the Ashburton Club and Mutual School of Arts. He was a foundation member of the Ancient Order of Foresters’ Lodge, and a member of the Ashburton Masonic Lodge, E.C. Mr Bryant’was born in 1865 in Christchurch, where his parents, Mr and Mrs William Bryant, had arrived three years earlier frojn Gloucester. England. He was educated at the Woolston and Halswell schools.

He went to Ashburton at thql age of 20, and was employed in a bakery for a year before setting up his own business in Havelock street.

He is survived by his widow, four sons, and seven daughters.