OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 4

OBITUARY

Mr. P. F. Mulhane Mr. Percy F. Mulhane, a well-known and highly respected member of the com- •• niercial community in Wellington, has died at the age of 53 years. A sou of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Mulhane, well known residents of Thorndon some years ago he was prominent in his younger day’s as an amateur boxer aud in Rugby football circles. ■ Except for one year spent in Dunedin, he was a resident of Wellington all his life Probably he was best known aw a principal and the travelling representative of Ellis and Manton, Ltd. Latteny he was in the employ of Phillips and Pike Ltd., working in association with Mr. M. G. C. McC’aul, a brother of the late Mr. Douglas McCaul, who was Mr, Mulhane’s most intimate business associate and friend for many years. Mr. Mulhane leaves a widow and one son, Private Owen B. Mulhane, of the Second Wellington Battalion; and two sisters, Mcsdames Smyth; and five brothers, Messrs. E„ E. L„ C., and A. N. Mu haue, Wellington, and Mr. J?- '*• U ! ian <w who is resident in the Dnited States ot America. Mr. A. D. Seabrook The death has occurred of Mr. A. D. Seabrook, for many years advertising manager of the “Auckland Star, aged <3, says a Press Association message from Auckland. Mr. Seabrook, who had lived in retirement from 193 G. was born at Melbourne of New Zealand parents, ana educated at a Christchurch boardin school and Scots College MelbourneAfter four years on the staff of. the ban Francisco Chronicle, lie joined the. “Auckland Star’’ in 1891. lie leates <t family of four sons and six daughters. Miss Mary Boddington Miss Mary Buddington, a widelyknown resident of Masterton, died 1U her sleep on Tuesday night. Miss Boddin ton, who was born in Christchurch in 1874, was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Boddington. bhe went ie Masterton with her parents m lai J, and except for some years in England and Australia, had lived in Masterton ever since. For some twenty years she had been associated with her brotbei- Mr H. M. Boddington, m his office. Miss Boddington was the first treasurer of the Women’s National Welfare League, aud in recognition of her services she was later elected a life member, bhe was actively connected with tue refreshment arrangements at Wairarapa tennis tournaments for many years anti, with he Misses V'alhiuce, was responsible for lie arrangements for the annual bedgley Home collections, bhe was a strict ehnrchwomaii. There are two brothers, Messrs HM. Boddington (Masterton), and’ A.' J. Boddington (Johannesburg, South Africa), and two sisters,. Mesdnme“ F. D. McGovern (Auckland) and Ernest Stone (South Perth, Western Australia).