OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR W. J. MANLEY N The death which occurred suddenly at his home on Saturday evening of Mr William John Manley has deprived Dunedin of a very highly-esteemed citizen and one who was a typical Christian gentleman, a kindly, generous man who was respected by all who had the good fortune to know him. Mr Manley’s parents arrived in the ship Derwent Water on November 29, 1861, and Mr Manley was born on December 2, three days after the ship reached port. He was educated at Waipori, and it was there that he passed the pupil teachers’ examination in March. 1876. On leav-

ing school he was engaged carrying the mail between Waipori and Outram, and at one time was lost in the snow coming over the Lammerlaws. When Mr Manley left Waipori he obtained a position as message boy in the service of Messrs Herbert, Haynes, and Co., drapers, and subsequently served his apprenticeship with Mr T. C. Cameron, architect. After leaving Mr Cameron’s service he spent thirty-six years in the employ of Messrs Scoullar and Chisholm, subsequent to which he joined the firm of Messrs F. and F. Martin, from whose employ he retired some three or four years ago.

In his early youth Mr Manley joined Knox Church, and was a member of Dr Stuart’s Bible class and secretary of the Temperance Society. He represented the old folk of Knox Church when they voted on the subject of having an organ installed. When the Salvation Army was established in Dunedin over fifty years ago he became one of its first members, and during his fifty-one years’ association with the Army he had served under every general that had had command of the Salvation Army. He was a loyal and zealous follower of the Army, and was one of the first bandmasters in the Dunedin City Corps. He filled every other position which a local officer can attain, and some years ago was appointed an envoy. He was also the Dunedin correspondent for the ‘ War Cry,’ the Army’s newspaper. Ho retained his active interest in the Army’s work to the end, and it will be much the poorer by the passing of ono who had its interests so much at heart. Mr Manley was also an active member of the Albion Cricket Club in his early days. His wife predeceased him by four weeks, and he is survived by a family of two daughters—Mrs G. Stratton and Miss C. Manley—and three sons— Messrs William, H. M., and F. A. Manley. The three sons all served in the Great War. CAVALIER GERALDO PEROTTI [Per United Press Association.] GREYMOUTH, September 9. The death has occurred, at the age of sixty-two years, of Cavalier Geraldo Perotti, a native of Greymouth.- Cavalier Perotti, who was knighted last year by Signor Mussolini in recognition of his very energetic work on behalf of the numerous Italian population locally, succeeded his father as Italian ViceConsul in 1911. He was formerly a noted footballer. He was also a member of the Greymouth Borough Council. BISHOP GRAWFURD Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 7. The death is announced of the Right Rev. Lionel Payne Crawfiml, Bishop of Stafford; aged seventy years. He was chaplain to the Bishop of Adelaide from 1890 to 1902.

SIX JOHN MONCREIFFE

LONDON. September 8. The death is announced of Com. mander Sir John Guy Moncreiffe; aged fifty. He served on a submarine during the Great War, bis vessel being wrecked on the Dutch coast in 1910. He was a prisoner of war in Holland for the remainder of the war. He retired in 1920.