OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 145, 16 March 1934, Page 12

OBITUARY

Mr. A. J. Hillier I ;Mr. Alfred John Hillier, better known to* some people as “Bobs,” because of htV likeness to the late Lord Roberts, diqd in the Wellington Hospital yesterday morning at the age of 68 years. wjj,en a young man in Sydney he was a cricket prodigy, who could occasionally up a century without much effort) For that reason he was included in dine of the Australian Test teams whiqh played the late Dr. W. G. Grace’s English team in Sydney about half a centitry ago. Fair the last fifteen years he had been employed as a servant and gardener by a pf&ninent resident of Wellington. ’ War-time Nurse The) death occurred at: Wanganui yesterda'j of Miss Ada Isabel Murray, matroii of Belverdale Private Hospital, who l,ad a distinguished record as a nurse ■on active service during the Great 'War. She was the eldest daughter of {he late Mr. and Mrs. J. Murray, Christiffhurch. where she was educated, says a' Special Service message. She was trrbined for the nursing profession at Napier Hospital, and from there she wept Home, enlisting for service in 1914 J going in the first instance to hospitals at Bournemouth and _ Codford, WSiere she remained for sixteen months.; A month after her arrival at Codford' she was promoted sister. In 1915 hep war service took her to Salonika!, where she remained for two years in! charge of 120 beds in a military hospital. She later joined his Majestyjs ambulance transport Gloucester CJastle, and for 15 months was sister, a kid for ten months matron on that shin, leaving it on account of the demobili ration of the British Forces then taking place. In 1921 she was appoint&B to the nursing staff of the Northcot h Private Hospital, Palmerston Noitth. as a sister. She transferred from there after twelve months to Dannek’irke Hospital, where she served asi' sub-matron and home sister. Subsequently she occupied similar positions ait Cook Hospital, Gisborne, and then was matron at Tauranga. She was Appointed to Belverdale, Wanganui, twto years ago. While on active service sinh was presented by the King with the Hoyal Red Cross Medal, and she also h:kl the 1914-15 star and other service me [lais.