LOST OVERBOARD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23302, 22 March 1939, Page 15

LOST OVERBOARD

HON. W. W. SNODGKASS MISSED FROM • CABIN "• WELLINGTON-NELSON VOYAGE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NELSON, Tuesday A member of the Legislative Council, the Hon. W. W. Snodgrass, a passenger by the steamer Arahura from Wellington last evening, disappeared on the voyage.

Mr. Snodgrass had supper with the master, Captain Hay, and returned to his cabin fairly early. When the other occupant of the cabin, Mr. Walter S. Dillon, went to bed, Mr. Snodgrass was in his bunk reading. They later said good-night. In the morning Mr. Snodgrass was found to be missing. His clothes and effects were in the cabin.

Born in Liverpool in 1870, Mr. Snodgrass arrived in New Zealand with his parents at tho fige of ten. His father, the late Mr. R. Snodgrass, entered into business in Nelson, ...and . the. business had been carried on ever since by tho son. Mr. Snodgrass served on the City Council for three years, later being Mayor from "*917 to 1921. He was also for some time on the Nelson Harbour Board, and was a member of the War Funds Council throughout its existence. In addition, lie served as. president of the Nelson Chamber of Commerce, and as a trustee of the St. Andrew's Orphanage and the Methodist Church. He was awarded tho M.B.E. in 1919, and was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1921.