DEATH ON PARADE GROUND
GISBORNE HIGH. SCHOOL MASTER OLD BOY OF NELSON COLLEGE Gisborne, Feb. 2. j The death of l\lr Percy Clement ' Edmondson occurred yesterday morning j while he was waiting to fall in with C j Company of the Gisborne Battalion, I Home Guard, on the parade ground. !Mr Edmondson, who had only returned at the weekend from a holiday ready to j resume teaching at the Gisborne High School, had just reached the parade i ground and was talking to another j member of the company when he fell to j the ground. When a doctor arrived he i was dead.
i Born in Taka lea, Nelson, 57 years j ago, Mr Edmondson had a brilliant 'scholastic career, starting in Takaka land continuing at Nelson College. Canterbury College and then at Victoria College. Coming to Gisborne 27 yea is
! ago. ho joined the staff of the Gisborne ! High School. He was a keen supporter of Rugby football. In his younger clays ! he represented Southland and when lie came to Gisborne lie trained the Gisborne High School teams. He was h
member of the management committee of Poverty Bay Rugby Union for 13 years and was senior selector and coach on several occasions.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 5 February 1942, Page 3
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