OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR A. K G. RHODES. [Pib United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 26. Mr A- ; E. G. Rhodes died at his Christchurch residence this morning, aged sixtythree, of heart trouble, from which he had suffered for some time He was at one time Mayor of Christchurch and a member of local bodies, and ho also sat in Parliament for Gladstone and Geraldine. He was a Knight of the Order of St. John, and was intimately connected with the Red Cross daring the war, for which he received the 0.8. E. At one time he was a director of the Hew Zealand Shipping Company and chairman of directors of the ‘Press’ Company. Ho had a large land holding at the Chatham Islands. He is survived by his widow and one son (Mr Tahu Rhodes) and one daughter (Mrs G. H. Hutton). Our Christchurch correspondent telegraphs ; —-Mr Rhodes was keenly interested) In sport of all kinds, As a youth he plaved in school cricket and football, and m later life was president of the Canterbury Rugby Union. In 1892 Mr Rhodes married Mis Rose Moorhouse, daughter of the late Mr J. W. Moorhouse, a brother of Mr W. Sefton Moorhouse, one of the Superintendents of tho province of Canterbury. : Mr Rhodes is survived by Mrs Rhodes, and leaves one son (Captain Tahu Rhodes, M.Y.0., who married the Hon. Helen Plnnket, eldest daughter of the late Lord Plnnket, at one time Governor of Hew Zealand) and one daughter, who is married to Major G. H. Hutton, D.S.O. Our Christchurch correspondent telegraphs'that the death occurred at Auckland on Sunday of a well-known member of the Otago legal profession, in Mr W. Henderson, who for many years practised in Gore. He was a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland, and came out as a boy with his parents in 1857. His mother’s people (the Robertsons) wore identified with the very early history of the Otago province, arriving in 1849. His father, Donald Henderson, was a member of the Otago Provincial Council, and the subject of this notice was one of the fifty-nine boys who originally joined the Otago Boys’ High. School when it opened in 1863, He altered the legal office of Haggitt and Hngeitt in 1868, and was admitted to the Bar in 1873 by Mr Justice Chapman, father of the present judge. He subsequently practised at Lawrence, Dunedin, Balclutha, end in 1870 he removed to Gore, and was the first resident solicitor in that town, retiring in 1918 and going to to live. During his fifty years’ connection with the Otago Bar Mir Henderson say the rise of a number of eminent members of the profession, for the province has provided many distinguished occupants of tha Supreme Court Bench. At the time of his retirement he was one of _the oldest practising solicitors in the dominion. He li survived by a family of four—Mesdsmea B. H. 'Whitmore (Tokomani Bay), Tf. A. Martin (Oliristchurchl, and Messrs !>. H. Henderson (Auckland) and A. G. Henderson (Gore).