OBITUARY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 237, 5 September 1945, Page 6

OBITUARY

WARRANT-OFFICER E. A. WILDE Warrant-Officer Ernest Albert Wilde, whose death occurred as the .result of an 'accident at Mt. Holdsworth Military Camp a short time ago, was 36 years of age and was born in Otaki, being the eldest son of Mrs E. M. Wilde, of Pascal Street, Palmerston North. After receiving his early education at the Otaki Primary School he attended the Palmerston North Technical School. Later he became a refrigeration engineer with a firm in Petone, and while working there lived at Northland, Wellington. In 1940 he joined the Army and became an instructor in the Engineers. He was stationed for a period at Johnston Park, Feilding, and later returned to Trentham Camp, where he joined the N.Z. Temporary Staff as an instructor. In 1933 Warrant-Officer Wilde married Miss D. Kaye, second daughter of Mrs M. A. Kaye, of Frederick Street, Palmerston North, who survives him, along with one daughter, Heather, and three sons, Bruce, Lawrence and Peter. There are also two sisters, Mrs J. Clark CAwapuni) and Miss A. Wi'lde (Palmerston North), and three brothers, Messrs P. and W. Wilde (Palmerston North) and Gunner E. Wilde (overseas). One brother, Sergeant G. G. Wilde, lost his life while serving in the Air Force. Warrant-Officer ■ Wilde was accorded a military funeral by the members of the Trentham staff.

MR ROBERT McMANUS

Mr Robert McManus, who passed away in Palmerston Morth recently, after a short illness, was born at Carrington Road, New Plymouth, in 1867, ancT was in his 78th yeat As a youth he went to Wanganui, where tor. a time he was employed in the offices of Messrs \\ att and Cohen, barristers and solicitors. Tiring of Jaw, he joined the. staff of the Wanganui Herald, serving an apprenticeship to the printing trade. Later he went to Wellington, and was employed first of all on the Catholic Times, and, later, on joining the staff of the Evening Post, as a''compositor when the linotype machines were first installed. Some vears afterwards he was employed on the Feilding Star as compositor .and racing editor, and from there he came to Palmeistor. North, joining the literary staff of the "Manawatu Standard" as proof-reader and conducting also the "sporting column under the nom-de-pluine of "Flaneur" for many years. On his retirement he continued to contribute racing articles to several papers. In his younger days Mr McManus was an outstanding athlete, defeating the best walkers in Australia on Wanganui, Feilding,, Palmerston North, and Wellington tracks, and there 'was no more popular competitor. His passing will be regretted by a wide 1 field of sporting friends, and sympathy is felt for his widow and only j daughter.