OBITUARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10788, 8 January 1929, Page 3

OBITUARY.

MR, 11, J. BARNES

tTz las Association ) WELLINGTON, Jan. 7. The death has occurred of Mr. B Barnes, accountant, and a wellknown 'chess player. Deceased was prom neut for some years, being champion five times and runner-up on nine occasions in English congresses.

MR WILLIAM All LEE (Special To The Times). AUOKLAKI), Jan. 7. Representative of one of tlie senior Chinese families in New Zealand, and general manager of the firm of Ah Cheo and Co., Mr. William Ah Chen died yesterday at the ago of i>B years, lie was stricken with pleurisy last June and he hud kept to his bed for about eight months, tie was Ills eldest living soil of Mr. Ah Cheo,-. who' founded the business in Auckland m 1882, and, who is at present living in China. Horn in Parnell, and educated at the Normal and Grammar schools. Mr. Ah Cheo entered fully into the Me of the community in his younger days. He was a toot,bailer and a boxer, and lie retained Ins interest in these s; oHs. becoming a member of the : uoklund Ihixmg Association. He was alto a keen motorist 'ud formerly ov. nod a racing car. He entered Ins father's business, and in 1914 became gei oval manager, for years he wars an active member of the Chinese Societies, including Kuo Mill Tang, cr the Nationalist Club. His widow, a Chinese is now in Sydney on her return jouruey front a trip to China