RELICS OF CRISIS IN PRAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 14

RELICS OF CRISIS IN PRAGUE

(Received October 5, 10 a.m.)

PRAGUE, October 4. The air-raid trenches dug in the public gardens and flower beds will be preserved and adapted to harmonise these grim mementoes.

value of £6000, with the proviso that the capital sum on realisation was to be invested and the proceeds applied to the purchase of works of art for the National collection. In addition he gave a further sum of £5000 for the National Art-Gallery, a project that was very dear to him and of which he was appointed a trustee by statute. He was also vice-president of the War Memorial Carillon Society.

Early in May of this year Sir Harold paid what proved to be his last visit to England. He was not well at the time and he thought he would benefit by the change by taking passage in the liner Rangitane to London, and as she had to remain a few weeks in England he would join her on her return to New Zealand. This he did, arriving at Auckland on August 25. But while he was in England he was taken ill, and he came back under medical attention all the way. He made a little recovery, but it was only a prelude to further weakness, and he was confined to his room. Even there until near the last he was able to attend to one or two matters of urgent business. But his condition grew weaker, and he never rallied.

Sir Harold Beauchamp was twice married; his first wife died in 1918, and his second survives him. The surviving members of his family are Mrs. James Mackintosh Bell, of Almonte, Ontario. Canada, the widow of the late Dr. James Mackintosh Bell, formerly Government Geologist for New Zealand, who was born and educated in Canada, where he died, leaving two sons; Mrs. Pickthall,. London, wife of Mr. Cecil Marmaduke Pickthall, of the Foreign Office; Mrs. Renshaw, London, wife of Captain Charles Mitford Renshaw, who has a daughter and a son, the former having paid a visit to Wellington some months ago. Lieutenant Leslie Heron Beauchamp, of the South Lancashire Regiment, was Sir Harold's only,, son. He was accidentally killed while on active service in 1915.

Both Mrs. Mackintosh Bell and Mrs. Pickthall came out to New Zealand to visit their father and Lady Beauchamp a little while before he left Wellington on his last visit to London.

The funeral service will be held in St. Paul's Cathedral Church at 2 p.m. tomorrow, and will be conducted by the Rev. Canon Sykes, of Greytown, and the Rev. Canon Davies, of St. Paul's. The cortege will leave subsequently for the Crematorium, Karori Cemetery.