OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 17928, 25 March 1922, Page 1

OBITUARY

There died at Wellington the other day Mr John Gennnell Turner, who was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1856. He was a music teacher, and had acquired, without assistance, a knowledge of thirty instruments. Ho landed at Dunedin in 1C93, and later settled in Wellington, whore thousands of pupils were taught by him. Two daughters, who survive him, are accomplished musicians. Mr Norman James Leslie, who died in the Wellington Hospital on Thursday, was a well-known rifleman, and at ono time held the championship of the North Island. When living in Dunedin some years ago ho was a member of the Kaikorai football ream.

Our Christchurch correspondent advises : The death is announced of tho wife of Mr W. G. (Billy) Garrard, whose name is a household word In football and trotting circles throughout New Zealand. She had been in ill-health for a considerable time.