OBITUARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 May 1934, Page 4

OBITUARY

MR ARTHUR RICHARDSON

The death of Air Arthur Richardson senr., at his home in Vanguard street, removed another link with one of the pioneer families of Nelson. The late Air Richardson was the youngest of a family of twelve (six sons and six daughters) of the late Air and Alr s James Richardson, who arrived in Nelson in the ship Alary Ann in 1842. lie himself was born in Nelson in 1862 and at an early age went to Blenheim, where he spent a number of years 6f hardships and trials following' the occupation of shepherding on some of the largest sheep stations in Marlborough, and later in the Waivarapa district. Mr Richardson returned to Nelson in 1886 and married Aliss Annie Williams of Carterton and has since resided in Nelson, where for many years he was on the stall of the Nelson and Stoke Alental Hospitals. His wife predeceased him about two years ago. He leaves two daughters (Mrs TT. E. Crooks and Aliss Esma Richardson) and one son (Mill. Af. Richardson), all resident in Nelson. and also two brothers, Alessrs Wm. Richardson of Wellington, and Geo. Richardson of Nelson, and one sister, Airs Jas. Stevens, of Palmerston North. The late Air Richardson although of a quiet unassuming disnosition was respected and hold in high esteem by a very large circle of friends.

MR P. E. BEAN Air P. K. Bean, of 4 Kahu street, Riccarton, Christchurch, died last week following a very sudden illness which occurred while he was playing tennis (reports the "Press”). Air Bean, |who had just passed his seventy-third birthday, was a retired railway servant, whose last appointment was stationmas--ter at Lyttelton. He was a very enthusiastic tennis player, and his steadiness and experience enabled him to play in the company of much younger men, among whom lie was always a redoubtable opponent or a valuable partner. He played on the United Club’s grass courts during the summer, and regularly but less frequently on hard courts in the winter, when he alternated his tennis with golf, playing at the Hagley Club, where he was a notable figure among apicturesque company of veterans known as “The Lambs.” Afr Bean bore his years lightly, thanks to a very cheerful disposition. He was extremely popular in tennis and golfing circles, and no tennis tournament latterly would have seemed complete without hi s presence in charge of the umpiring, though he did not umpire often himself. ITe was familiarly known among a very wide circle of friends as “Bea.vo.” He was, in fact, the most remarkable of all the tennis veterans of Christchurch, and possibly of New Zealand, and when he played recently in a veterans’ exhibition match at. Wilding Park, with Messrs J. H. Kirk, E. J. Ross, and George Fisher, he was the most active member of the party. Air Bean leaves a widow and grown-up family. A brother, Mr W. D. Bean, of Nelson, was for a time headmaster of the Sydenham School.

DR. D. E. FENWICK (By Telegraph—Press Association') WELLINGTON, This Day. The death occurred suddenly to-day of Dr. D. Eardley Fenwick, 0.8. E. The late Dr. Fenwick, who was a son of Sir G. Fenwick, was born at Dunedin in 1887. He was a well-known cricketer and footballer at Otago University, and served throughout the war in the R.A.AI.C. and N.2.M.C.