Obituary

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30916, 24 November 1965, Page 25

Obituary

MR A. S. B. SMITH

(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, Nov. 22.

The commanding officer of the Otago Home Guard in World War 11, Mr Albert Stanley Bruce Smith, died in Dunedin on Saturday. Mr Smith, who was a wellknown wool and skin merchant, was born at Naseby in 1892. He was a member of the Maniototo squadron of the Otago Mounted Rifles, enlisting in the regiment at the outbreak of World War I. Sailing with the main body from Port Chalmers, he served at Gallipoli and then in France.

Rejoining the regiment later in New Zealand, he served until 1937, being appointed commanding officer in 1935, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

In 1940 he was promoted colonel and placed in command of the Otago district of the Home Guard. He held command until the unit was disbanded in 1945. Mr Smith is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.

MR J. SWEENEY

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 22.

Mr James Sweeney, a former Superintendent of Police at Auckland, died at his home in Remuera on Sunday. Mr Sweeney was born in Oamaru and joined the police at Wellington in 1905. He was appointed superintendent in charge of the Auckland police district in 1944.

He had a distinguished career as a detective. One of the cases that he helped to solve was the Bayly murder case at Ruawaro in 1933. Mr Sweeney retired from the police in 1948.