SUICIDE OF RELF
Worry Over Illness of Wife London, March 29. At the inquest concerning the death of the cricketer, A. E. Relf, who was found shot dead in the pavilion at Wellington College, where lately he had been coach, a doctor stated in evidence that Relf had been in indifferent health and depressed owing to worry over his wife's illness. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was recorded.
Relf acted as player and coach in Auckland from 1906 to 1910. The first English coach to visit New Zealand, he was engaged by the Eden District Cricket Club, Messrs. E. C. Beale and N. T. Williams being mainly responsible for inducing him Jo come to the Dominion. He was recommended by Lord Hawke, and was placed at the disposal of the Auckland Cricket Association, and in many Quarters he is regarded as the finest coach ever to have visited New Zealand. Some of the best players the Dominion has produced benefited by his coaching. Relf was a close friend of the late K. S. Rangitsinhji, former captain of the Sussex county eleven and an uncle of K. S. Duleepsinhji.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 11
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191SUICIDE OF RELF Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 11
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