OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 9

OBITUARY

Sir Walter Kingsmill Sydney, January 15. Tlie death is announced of Sir Walter Kingsmill, aged 70, president of the Senate from 1929 to 1932. Senator the Hon. Sir Walter Kingsmill was born in 1864 at Glenelg, South Australia and was educated at St. Peter’s College, Adelaide, where lie won a number of scholarships, and at Adelaide University. /After being for some time in the service of tlie South Australian Geological Department lie settled down in West Australia in 1888. He was M.L.A. for Pilbarrm from 1897 to 1903. M.L.C. for the Metropolitan Suburban Province from 1903 to 1910 and for the Metropolitan Province from 1910 to 1922. He was Minister of Public Works in 1901, Commissioner for Railways in 1901-1902, and also 1905-1906. chairman of Committees from 1906 to 1919, president of'the Legislative Council from 1919 to 1922, and had been senator for West Australia since 1922. He was a member of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts from 1926 to 1929, being vice-president in 1926 and chairman from 1927 to 1929. He was president of the Senate from 1929 to 1932, and was made n Knight Bachelor in 1933. Herr Von Hani el Berlin, January 11. The death is reported of Herr'Edgar von Haniel, president of the German peace delegation in 1919.