LEAVING FOR ENGLAND
Captain W. J. Melville After 30 years’ residence in the Dominion, Captain W. J. Melville, Wellington, will leave today by the Rangitiki for England because of ill-health. A son of the late Mr. William Melville, M.V.0., former chief of the Special Branch of Scotland Yard, Captain Melville was the author of a popular series of radio talks on Scotland Yard and the Secret Service. Captain Melville’s brother, the late Sir James Melville, is remembered by many former members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as Major Melville of the British G.H.Q. at Mudros Island. Captain Melville will leave many friends in Dannevirke, Greymouth and Hawera, where he was employed in the Department of Justice. In Dannevirke he was known as a keen horseman an'd was organizing secretary of the Dannevirke Hunt Club..
zlbout 10 years ago lie went to live in Wanganui and while there acted as chairman of the Wanganui East and Castlecliff School Committees.
Captain Melville left New Zealand with the Mounted Rilles in the Great War. He returned in 1918 and was on the training staff at Featherston Camp till the Armistice.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 13
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188LEAVING FOR ENGLAND Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 13
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