OBITUARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 November 1928, Page 7

OBITUARY

.EX-RUSSIAN PREMIER United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Australian Press Association.—United Service. PARIS, 11th November. The death is announced' at Nice of M. Alexander Trepoff, Russian Premier for a Tew weeks in wartime. MR W. H. TISDALL CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The death occurred suddenly yesterday from heart failure of Mr W. H. Tisdall, founder and head of the firm of W. H. Tisdall, Ltd., Christchurch, Wellington, and Hamilton. Mr Tisdall was well known not only in business circles, but also as an angling and shooting enthusiast. For some time he was a member of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, afterwards being president. He was at one time a member of the council of the Canterbury Automobile Association, also holding office as treasurer and president. He was also a member and staunch supporter of the Rotary Club. He is survived by a widow, three sons, and a married daughter (Mrs Baring Brabant of Dunedin). Mr Tisdall was a son of the late Mr W. H. Tisdall, a well-known gunmaker of Birmingham, England. He came to New Zealand in 18b7 and founded the sporting goods firm which bears his name and now well known throughout the Dominion. During his long residence in New Zealand he was always keenly interested in public life. While he lived at Wellington he was for some years a borough councillor of Karori, finally filling the position of . mayor.