OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 21818, 6 September 1934, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR JAMES ALLAH [Special to the ‘ Stae.’] AUCKLAND, September 6. A former inspector of the Department of Agriculture, Mr James Allan, died at Hawera, aged 74. In his earlier years he played Rugby, and was known as the “ Taieri giant.” After farming for some years in the South Island Mr Allan came north, and was inspector at Palmerston North and later at Hawera until his retirement. Mr Allan was an elder of the Presbyterian Church, and formerly belonged to. the Hawera Bowling Club. Mr Allan represented Otago on the football field on many occasions, and was a member of the 1884 New Zealand team, the first side from here to tour New; South Wales. MR M. S. HOLMES The youngest son of the Hon. Matthew Holmes, of Awamoa, Mr Matthew Stuart Holmes, died yesterday at his residence in Queen street Dunedin, aged seventy-eight years. He entered the Otago Boys’ High School in 1867, and as a young man took to the life of a runholder, one of his properties being at Allday Bay, at the mouth of the Kakanui River, and the other the Clover Hills Estrate, on the Horse Ranges. Apart' from farming, his interests were towards art and natural history. He married Miss Florence Ellen Reid, the youngest daughter of the late Mr John Reid, of Elderslie. She survives her husband. The son is a farmer, and the daughter is married and living in Canterbury. MR J. A. STRINGER (Peb United Press Association.] NELSON, September 6. The death has occurred of Mr John Alfred Stringer, an ex-city councillor. He was on the directorate of the Permanent Building Society, and was wellknown in sporting circles, being Vicepresident of the Nelson Jockey Club. MR SIDNEY B. MYER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, September 5. . The death occurred suddenly of Mr Sidney B. Myer, governing director of the Myer Emporium; _ aged 58. Mr Myer, who was. a Russian Jew, arrived in Melbourne thirty years ago a poor man, but died one of the wealthiest and most successful business men in Australia. His business, the capital of which is £3,000,000, employs 4,000 persons and occupies a large space in the centre of the city. LORD DEVSNPORT LONDON. September 5. (Received September 6, at 11 a.xn.) The death is announced- of Lord Devoiiport. [Lord Devonport was seventy-eight years of age. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1905 to 1909, and Food Controller and Chairman of the Royal Commission on Sugar Supplies from 1916 to 1917.]