MR.E.W. WADE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1931, Page 11

MR.E.W. WADE

I The death:.occurred at- Christchurch on Saturday. morning of Mr. Edniond William Wade, secretary of the Christ-' church. Bowling. Centre, aria formerly president of- the Cantertury.Commercial Travellers ■'and/. Warehousemen's Association Mr/ W^de,,^<Twm; 60 yeartf of age, bad buffered from ■illhealth for several months/but had been confined .;*»" bed; for only a;week.._. ; ; The late' Mr. Wade was.bonrin ■ lim■aru, and as 'a young, man -was in the hardware.' business in Dunedm.; ■ iie then removed to Timaru and opened a hardware business on his ov£. account, and about twelve-years,ago he jomett tie staff of MalLug and Co., Ltd;, merchants; of Christchurchi For the past sis- years ho had been in business in Christehnrch : as ;; , a v. manufacturers , ■ %r;-' Wade.^wa^ "actively" associated with towliitg in/.Timaru;:. 'Ip a923 ; ;:hc; was "appointed secretary, of thcChristcliurch Bowling Centre, .succeeding Mr. T> E. Wood, who had retired from that position. In that capacity he was also secretary of the Dominion championship bowling tournaments.in 1924 and 1938, in which latter year,-- the. late Mr A. J..Benzie ) .whoso ; deathalso took place at 'Cliristchurch on Saturday, was. •president of the Dominion' Association...■ ■v At-the time "oi .-his death tho ,-latp jir. rWade.-was president, other . St. Albans Bowling Club, of which ho iatt been a member during bis Msidence m Christchnrcb. Mr. Wade was ' an^ active meniber of the .Canterbury Commercial Travellers - and Warehousemen's Association, and occupied tho position oi. president in 1928 and 1929.; He alsb was a member of the .commit-; teo of the association and a member of the exeeutive'of tlie_lJnitcd.Cbmmercia] Travellers' Association. ■ _ . .