OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 285, 28 August 1933, Page 10

OBITUARY

Mr. Robert L. Williams HAWKE’S BAY PIONEER One of Hawke’s Bay’s early settlers, Mr. Robert Loosmore Williams, man-aging-director of the firm of Henry Williams and Sons, Ltd., wholesale and retail hardware merchants and ironmongers, died at his residence, Marine Parade, Napier, on Friday morning. Mr. Williams was the eldest son of the late Mr. Henry Williams, the original founder of the firm of Henry Williams and Sons, Ltd., and was born at Bath, England, coming to Napier with his mother when an infant. He was educated at thq Napier Grammar School under the headmastership of the Rev. D’Arcy Irvine. He served in the wholesale and retail hardware business in several of the leading establishments in Wellington for some years, gaining a thorough knowledge of the business. At a comparatively early age he entered his father’s office and his marked business ability soon showed itself. He was for a number of years manager of .the Hastings branch of the firm’s business, a position he relinquished to take a business trip to America, where he remained for some time? On his return he, with his brother, joined his father in partnership, and the business was then carried on under the name of Henry Williams and Sons; subsequently, on the death of his father, the business was formed into a company under the title of Messrs. Henry Williams . and Sons, Ltd., of which he became manag-ing-director. Always interested in racing, the late Mr. Williams was honorary clerk of the scales for the H.B. Jockey Club for a number of years and a steward of the Napier Park Racing Club. He was also a member of the Napier Club and a life member of the Cosmopolitan Club, having been an officebearer of the old Napier Working Men’s Club. He is survived by a widow, three sous—Messrs. Tom C. Williams (Dannevlrke), Erie Williams (Napier), and Jack Williams (Sydney)—and three daughters—Mrs. S. Ruddock (Napier), Mrs. Bellerby (Putorino) and Mrs. Dobson (Wellington), Mr. Reginald, Williams was killed in the Great War and Mr. Harry Williams died as the result of an accident sustained while he was playing football as a student of Wanganui College. To the bereaved family and relatives the sympathy of friends in all parts of Dominion will be extended. -.The flags of the Hawke s Bay Club, Napier Club and Napier Borough Council were flown at half-mast on Friday in respect to his memory. Mr. John William Barron The death occurred suddenly about 1.15 on Saturday afternoon of Mr. John William Barron, tablet porter on the railway staff at Ngaio. _ , Mr Barron, who was aged 53, had been at work on Friday, but feeling .unwell on Saturday sent a son of a neighbour to the railway station to tell them that he would be unable to ■be at work that Afternoon. When the lad returned to inform him that he had delivered the message,' he found that Mr. Barron had passed away. He had complained earlier in the day that he was suffering from indigestion, but it is assumed that the cause of death was heart failure. It is probable that an inquest will be held. Born at Inglewood., the late Mr. Barron entered the service of the Railway Department as a surfaceman, but was later transferred to the traffic as a tablet porter. He had had 23 years’ service, five of which had been spent at Ngaio. He leaves a widow, who is at present spending a holiday in Wanganui, and five sten-children. The funeral will take place . tomorrow. Mr. Walter. Fennell All who knew Mr. Walter Fennell, the former Hawera singer, will regret to learn of his death in London. He was a young man of special attainments. which gained for him a subprofessorship at the Royal Academy. He was an attractive singer, and could apply bis gifts in a most versatile way. He was a frequent performer “over the air” in London, and was a capital entertainer at the pianoforte. Unfortunately Mr. Fennell suffered from a nervous disability, which stood in the way of his complete success; yet all who knew him held him and his talents in the highest respect. Mr. Fennell was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fennell, of Hawera. He received his education primarily at the Hawera Convent School, and it was there that his musical'gifts were detected. He was trained by the Convent Sisters and afterward by Miss Daisy O’Reilly, and was in her hands when be won the Royal Academy Scholarship which took him to London. ■' Mr William Clement Cargill News was received in Wellington on Saturday morning of the death the previous evening of Mr. William Clement Cargill, well known in the newspaper world as the managing-director of the Cargill Publishing Company, which publishes the “Morrinsville Star,” the “Putaruru Press,” and the “Matamata Record” in the South Auckland district. The late Mr. Cargill, who was 63 years of age, was the son of the Rev. C. Cargill, of River, in Kent, England. He was educated at Newport, Dulwich and Heidelburg (Germany). Seeking wider fields of enterprise, he came to New Zealand as a young man, and. going to the Wairarapa, he acquired the “Wairarara Star” in 1892. and, in association with Mr. A. O. Major, changed its title to the “Wairarapa Age.”/ Later he sold out in the Wairarapa, and, in 1904. acquired the “Patea Press,” which he retained for four years, when he founded the “Pukekohe I Times,” which he controlled from IQII I to 1914. Mr. Cargill purchased the “Morrinsville Star” in 1915, and had remained there ever since. As a young man Mr. Cargill was very actively associated with sport. He represented 'Wairarapa, Wanganui, and Taranaki in the cricket field, and later was a keen tennis player. From 1906 to 1908 he was a member of the Wanganui Education Board; for the two succeeeding years he was a member of the Taranaki Education Board, and was president of the New Zealand Master Printers’ Federation from 192 S to 1930. The late Mr. Cargill is survived by his widow and two daughters.

Rev. George Lindsay . A Press Association message from Christchurch states that the death occurred last evening of the Rev. George Lindsay, aged 87, retired minister of the Presbyterian Church. He was minister of St. Paul’s. Invercargill, for 23 years until 1911, in which year he was Moderator of the General Assembly. He was afterward at St. Clair for two years and at Southbridge for five years.