Obituary MONSIGNOR BRADLEY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28930, 25 June 1959, Page 15

Obituary MONSIGNOR BRADLEY

(New Zealand Press Association t AUCKLAND, June 24. The national director of the Roman Catholic Society for the Propagation of the Faith in mission lands, the Right Rev. Monsignor J. J. Bradley, died in Auckland this morning. He was 70.

He was parish priest of St. Michael’s, Remuera, Auckland.

Monsignor Bradley was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and studied for the priesthood there, being ordained for the diocese of Auckland, in 1916. He was made a domestic Prelate to the Pope, with the title of monsignor, in 1948.

MR C. R. EDMOND

“The Press” Special Service HAMILTON, June 24. Mr Charles Roderick Edmond, a former Dominion president of the Y.M.C.A., died recently at Hamilton, aged 69. Mr Edmond was born in Melbourne and came to New Zealand as a boy. He served in the First World War as a Y.M.C.A. secretary. Later he became secretary of the Wellington Y.M.C.A. and was general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance for six years. Relinquishing the position of general manager of Todd Motors. Ltd., in 1941, he became general secretary of the New Zealand Retail Motor Trade Association. He was president and a life member of the association. Mr Edmond, who went to Hamilton in 1951, was very active in the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches. He is survived by his wife and three sons.

Yesterday’s Frost

The dew of the previous evening was the cause of the exceptionally heavy coat of frost in Christchurch yesterday morning. The humidity at 9 p.m. on Tuesday was 85 per cent., but started dropping subsequently. Soon after midnight, when the air temperature was 31.9 degrees, the early frost was already apparent by a white coating on lawns and the tops of parked cars. Later, as a light north-easterly wind sprang up, the air temperature started rising again. The maximum frosts recorded overnight were 10.9 degrees at the Harewood airport and 7.9 degrees at the Botanic Gardens. I