PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 October 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tlie death occurred unexpectedly at Timani on Saturday of Captain Arthur. Rhodes, M.C., aged 30 (wires The' Mail's ChristchuKch correspondent). He left New Zealand with the Main Body as a sergeant in the South Canterbury Regiment, and after distinguished service on Gallipoli and in Palestine and France gained promotion to I'he rank of captain, being aide-de-camp to MajorGeneral Sir Edward Chaytor. He was painfully wounded on Gallipoli by a Iwyohet. On"'returning to*New Zealand Captain Rhodes married a daughter of Mr C. Holdsworth, managing director of the Union Steamship Company, and she survives him. with three young daughters. Captain Rhodes was a noted cattle breeder and member of the South Canterbury Soldiers' Settlement Board.

The death occurred on Saturday night, after a\ long illness of Mr Francis Day, an old and highly respected resident of the city. Mr Day, who had reached the age of 78, was born in Nelson and'was thus amongst the earliest children of the province. He spent some of his early days on 1 the West Coast diggings. He returned to Nelson and joined the railway service, but on the opening of the Mahakipawa diggings he was attracted to the now "rush." Again returning to Nelson lie resumed work on the railway, eventually retiring on superannuation. For a great* part of his life he lived in Toi Toi street, and the younger generation received from him interesting descriptions of the conditions prevailing in that part of the city in the early days when roads and footpaths were unknown and tracks through swamps were the onlv avenues of communication. latter-, Iv Mr Dav had lived in the heart of the, c'itv. Mrs Dav predeceased him by nine . 'years. He ' leaves a family of five daughters. The Jat P Mi; Kay, w ftS ()l a quiet, and unassuming disposition, ami ever readv to help those about him, and these attributes had won him the respect and esteem of those with whom ||e came in contact. "\

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