OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 6

OBITUARY

Mr. Walter Dalgleish • The death' occurred in a Wellington hospital last week of Mr. Walter'Dalgleish, stock inspector in the Department of Agriculture in Hastings. • Mr. Dalgleish came to Wellington on medical advice only a week ago to be operated upon, and the operation took place last Monday week. He gradual.y failed, however, and death ' occurred on Air? Dalgleish was born in the Clutha district sixty years ago. At the age of twenty-three he joined the Agricultural Department, and at the time of his death had completed thirty-seven years of un■broken service. He was first appointed to Gore, and later served at Wanganui, Wairoa and Nelson. Later he went to Hastings. . , , . . The deceased is survived by his widow, by an unmarried daughter, Miss Mavis Dalgleish, and by a married son, Mr. Norman Dalgleish, of Nelson. i J Mi'. Hugh Forrest For many years one of the best-known music teachers in Wellington, Mr. Hugh Forrest, died at his home in Hopper Street on Sunday, at the age of 68 years. He was a teacher here for niore than 40 years, and was a member from time to time of various musical societies. He was of a quiet and retiring disfiosition, however, and never entered public life. Mr. Forrest was born in Edinburgh, and come out to New Zealand in lbbB. When 23 years of age he began teaching the violin and harmony m Wellington, and met with immediate success. He is survived by his widow and a brother, Mr. William Forrest, of Auckland, late postmaster at Rotorua. Mrs. Elizabeth Lee At the end of a long and useful life, during which she was a most active church worker, Mrs. Elizabeth Lee died ■ on Sunday after a short illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. I. Jermyn, Beauchamp Street, Karori, in her 9-lth Mrs. Lee was born in East Mailing, Kent, on Marell 24, 1838, and arrived in Wellington with her husband, the late Mr. John Lee, and their family, by the ship La Hogue in 1874. Her husband died eight years later. Shortly after her arrival here Mrs. Lee took up the round of church duties which had been so congenial to her in England. .When St. Mark’s School was. established in 1876 as an offshoot of St. Peter’s, she assisted with the choir, Sunday school, and other work. A few years later the-vestry of St. Marks’ decided to open a mission hall in Newtown, and Mrs. Lee. at the wish of the late Rev. Richard Coffey, transferred her activities to this new sphere. From that time onward, Mrs. Lee was prominently identified with St. Thomas’s Church, to which .the mission, hall at Newtown was a beginning. Soon after her 80th birthday she was tendered a complimentary social by the parishioners of St. Thomas’s. It was not until her 87th year that she decided to give up housekeeping. Before terminating a 50 years’ connection with church choirs, Mrs. Lee hhd the very uncommon pleasure of singing in St. Thomas’s choir with her greatgrandson. Master Eric Norris. Mrs. Lee is survived by one son, five daughters. 15 grandchildren, and 26 greatgrandchildren. Mr. J. C. Arnold A well-known business man of Wanganui, Mr. Joseph Charles Arnold, passed awav suddenly on Friday morning, states n “Dominion” Special Service message from Wanganui. The late Mr. Arnold was born in London 64 years ngo, and came to New Zealand when a boy. He was in the employ of Messrs. T. Ballinger nnd Co., Wellington, before going to Wanganui, where he entered the employ of Mr. A. G. Bignell. Later he entered into business on his own account as a master plumber. The late Mr. Arnold took an active part in the life of the community, being in his younger days a fine Rugby player, and later a member of the Gonville Bowling Club. He was a member of the Wanganui Swimming Centre, a justice of the pence, and a past-master of the Masonic Lodge Moutoa. For several terms he was also a member of the Gonville Town Board. Mr. Arnold leaves a family of five—two sons, Messrs. R. arid H. Arnold, and three daughters, Misses L., M., and E. Arnold. His wife predeceased him nine years ago. , The funeral, which took place at the Arnmoho Cemetery on Saturday afternoon, was largely attended. The service was conducted by the Rev. H. G. Goring and members of the Masonic fraternity.