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Obituary MR C. A. L. TREADWELL f.V.Z. Press Association • WELLINGTON. Sept. 2. Mr C. A. L. Treadwell, who died in Wellington this week at the age of 77, served his 1 country in several capacities, as lawyer, author, soldier, and ! local body administrator. He served in Egypt then in France, with the New Zealand Division in the First World War. Later in 1917 he went on a three-months tour of training in England but 1 was later admitted to hospi-! tai. He organised a wills department and general law office which he ran until his return to New Zealand in June 1919. In 1927 he became legal ataff officer to the Central command, lectured and examined military law. In the Second World War he left New Zealand with the First Echelon as DeputyJudge Advocate General. He was promoted Lieutenant-Col-onel in Egypt. On his return to New Zealand he was appointed Deputy-Judge Avocate and on the death of Colonel C. H. Weston, was appointed Judge Advocate General with the rank of Colonel. He wrote several military books, and was part-author of the official history of the Wellington Regiment. He was Vice-consul for Brazil in 1932. and Consul in 1938. and president of the Wellington District Law Society in 1951. For six years he was a Wellington city councillor and for five years sat on the Wellington Hospital Board. He was also an inspector of mental hospitals. He retired as senior partner in Wellington’s oldest legal firm in Mav, 1957. DR. T. H. PULLAR <A’.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Sept. 2. The death has occurred in Tauranga of Dr. Thomas Henry Pullar. He qualified in Sheffield in 1929 and gained his M.R.C.P. in London in 1933. He trained in pathology in the United Kingdom and came to New Zealand in 1937 as pathologist to the Palmerston North Hospital. Dr. Pullar was the first full-time pathologist to be appointed to a New Zealand hospital outside the four main centres. At Palmerston North he established a laboratory service which received wide recognition through New Zealand. MR A. B. M. HOBBS The death occurred in Tauranga recently of Mr Alfred Benjamin Montrose Hobbs, a former Canterbury rowing and hockey representative. He was aged 75 years. Born at Hanmer Springs where his parents kept the well-known Ferry Hotel. Mr Hobbs served overseas during the Second World World War Upon his return he became a keen rower and hockey player representing Canterbury. At the national rowing championships he won a pair oars title. A jeweller by trade. Mr Hobbs left Christchurch around 1935 to live in Wellington. Ten years later he moved to Rotorua where he established a jewellery business. In Rotorua he played a leading part in athletics and cricket administration. For several years he was chief time-keeper to the Waikato Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, and he was rewarded for his work in athletics in Rotorua by being made a life member of the Rotorua Amateur Athletic and Harrier Club. He was also a president of the now-defunct Pirates Cricket Club. Upon his retirement from business. Mr Hobbs moved to Tauranga several years ago. He is survived by his wife, a son. and a daughter. Wool Merchants’ Conference The Federation of New Zealand Wool Merchants, will hold its first conference at Hanmer Springs next week. More than 70 delegates and their wives will be present. The conference will be officially opened by the Minister of Lands and Forests. Mr Gerard, in the absence of the Minister of Agriculture. Mr Taiboys, and addresses will be delivered by the chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board. Mr J. Acland. and Professor B. P. Philpott, professor of agriculture economics at Lincoln College. In conjuction with the conference, the federation will hold its third annual meeting. The president of the federation is Mr H. J. Dewe, of Feilding. Its North Island vice-president is Mr R. A. Weber (Palmerston North) and its South Island vicepresident. Mr R. G. Woodham (Ashburton). Formed in October. 1963. the federation now comprises 38 members, representatives of all substantial private treaty wool buyers throughout New Zealand. Apprentice W ins Award A Christchurch apprentice has been named as one of the top apprentices in the Ne.v Zealand trade certificate examinations held at the end of 1965, and is to receive an award from the New Zealand Painters and Decorators’ Prize Fund Board. He is Mr J. A. Almond, who was top in the second qualifying examination in painting and decorating.