OBITUARY.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14197, 12 August 1918, Page 8

OBITUARY.

• Mr Frederick George Hartley, manager of Hie National <Banlc at jStratfoid, , : sio<K on Monday front >uidikji;;heait hoi/ui p" (iirougliout tiie Dominion, Ho .fifty-tour; ' , ! .V'. !V i Lord Wenlock, whoso death-was an- , nounced from London a fewjdays ago, ! \vas bom in 1866, and entered the Army when lie was 20 years tof age. |[e was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1399 and colonel, in 1903. He served ( in the Nile Expedition in: 1884-85, for which he received the medal;and clasp and the Khedive's Star. He aiso;served , Iji the South' African war. He visited . New Zealand as 'A.D.C. to tlip Duke of York, now King GeorgcV , , -■ : i Mr Lewis Oughton, a residept of. Wellington'for the past 45 years, died j suddenly, at hreakfast ; fimc .ton Sunday ft liifCr^sidlene6 ■ Inv'Tahi, street,: Miramar He was born in London 167 years ago, and like hls'fatheiy was-brought up- to building trade. In. 1874 lie ai;in ed from'the 01d ,6untry in ;tliQ ship Conflict, and; remained; in Wellington for. tho remainder' of",his life.' For some years he- was in partnership, with" Mr AViA. Chote, f .the'firincarrying. out rnanyi large bricklaying contracts in the city. >Mr ' Oughton r has' left a-widofy and /( .a ■family- of six sons-niul four daughters.'■> i Mr J.( S.! Welch, who di(]d ,at Wei-/ lingtoiia fbw': days ago, was 87 years"' /ofV!age j: ! andjvas(a /very old j offieer' of . ' the .'Lands and Survey; Department, his originaKserviee. running back in Otago (. ■ ■ j«ras v an'.engineer; in the - Public Works. Department/ and surveyed a consider.j able'portion of the line • from, , iD.u'nedin northwards. Übout 41 y?ars ' ngovhfc rejoined' the' Suvvcy Department. in;upant as / Dis tr ict : Survey or. V at. j Akaroa,v i continued ;lield , / until ,1893;. /'when 'failing health'com- -■ pellod him to ■ ..join the

jiflico i" vniQi draughtsman, a posi tioh 'fir'' iotainod with the greatest (•ledit.mit I ho retned on supciannua tion under the age limit in 1909, Incidentally, it may be mentioned that nearly fifty yeais ago Mr Welch was in the same survej camp at the sur- , ' , i • i ' , .vcy of the Martin's Bay settlement on the iWest {Coast of Otngo with Mossis iTohn Strauchon and James Madcn/ie, both pf 'whom are ox chiefs of the, I Lands ami Survey Department, / Tbp party was wrecked at the h&\, and cut off from communication with the out side, /world for a'considerable ,peiiod. 'When) the party loft' Dunedln peace reigned in, and on their reinrn'to Dnnedin they'learned'thai the Fianoo Prussian War had heftrfought. ,ind the 'Empoior Napoleon had lieen detluoned and was a piisouei. Mr ITemjiOhailes Holden Walkci, an old lesident of Auelvlaml, died on Sunday deconseil, who was sj) jeais of age, camo to New Zealand fiom Kent about forty yeais, ago, and wtcied the employment of"Messis Aielubnld Olaik and Sons Ten uars i l ' ' ' ' ilatei he was placed in the Manchestei and Diess departments, a position he htfyt •until his. death. Mi ,lValker ( was pionunently nssociatod foi borne tho Befoim League, being a mcmbei of tho executive, He was also a member of tho Bonid of

Trustees of tho. Blind Institute foi about twelve ycais, and for n poition of that time ms ehanman of the Bonid. In his youngei days Mi Walker was an ardent jnchtsmnn, and was a /member of tho original ciew of the lacht Vohuiteoi He is survived bv Mis Walkei and three sons The eld est son, Captain H. J. I. 'Walker, uas killed at the second battle of'Ypics He was attached to |,ho War wickshno 'TRegimpnt, and went |o Fiance wjtli the first British,E\pedi tionaij Foiee The second son, Major Alan Walker, went to Samoa iwth the first and later felt for Tranee With the r'lrst, Battalion, Riflo IJi igade. He was recently invalided home. The third Charles Walker,' is at present in camp/with the Fort) fifth 'ReiiiforcemcnfJ while the fourth son is still attending, King's College 'Mr J. W. Ellis, >\ho died at Hamilton on Tuesday first Mayor of the amalgamated 'borough's of Prankton Jiinction and Hamilton. 'The death a* Puuedin pf Mr W. V. Bobb, ticket inspector on tho lnvertargill bianch of (he New Zea' ■land Raihajs.