OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 15

OBITUARY

MR GEORGE HARRAWAY > The death took place on June 1 of Mr George Harraway. Mr Harraway was bom in Dunedin and, except for u few years when he lived at Evans Flat and Otamita, all his business life was spent at Green Island in the flour milling company of Messrs Harraway and Sons, Ltd., of which he was a director. For several years he was a member of the Green Island School Committee. He was a member of the Carisbrook Cricket Club’s senior eleven for some years, and was a noted bowler at the time when A. H. Fisher was in his prime. Visiting Oamaru on one occasion with the Carisbrook team he captured the whole 10 wickets for a few runs in Oamaru’s innings. He rarely missed a representative cricket or football match. As a bowler he filled the position of president of the Caversham Bowling Club. His was a genial nature, and he will be widely missed. He is survived by his widow, who is a daughter of Mr Smellie, the founder of the Green Island Iron and Steel Works, and by two daughters and one son. CAPTAIN W. S. HODGSON The death occurred recently at Auckland of Captain William Stanley Hodgson, who was well known in the New Zealand trade in the service of the White Star Line. He was born at Maryport Cumberland, England, about 60 years ago. His father was a schoolmaster at Maryport, and four of his five sons went to sea. Captain Hodgson served his apprenticeship in the once well-known little barques owned .by Hine Brothers, of Maryport, and also served as second mate and chief mate in their ships. After he had gained his master’s certificate he joined the White Star Line in 1904. He made a number of voyages to New Zealand in the Corinthic and the Athenic, and also saw much service in White Star liners in the transatlantic service. He was an officer in the Arabic when that shiip was torpedoed without warning in 1917 and sunk with ’oss of life. About 10 years ago Captain Hodgson was chief officer in the Athenic and took command of that ship when her master, Captain J. L. Jones, died on the passage Home from New Zealand. Subsequently, Captain Hodgson commanded the lonic, the Megantic, and, for a few voyages, the Baltic. He retired from the sea in 1931, and came out to New Zealand, taking up farming near Hawera. Captain Hodgson, who died suddenly at Auckland, and was buried there, was twice married, He leaves a widow and three sons. MR NATHANIEL HERRESHOFF NEW YORK, June 2. (Received June 3, at 5.5 p.m.) The death has occurred of Mr Nathaniel HerreshofT, aged 90, the builder of many defenders of the America’s Cup, the symbol of yachting supremacy. SIR EDWARD DENHAM (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) KINGSTON (Jamaica), June 3. (Received June 3, at 8.30 p.m.) The death has occurred of Sir Edward Denham, Captain-general and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica since 1934. Sir Edward Denham, who was born in 1876, entered the Ceylon Civil Service as a cadet. He subsequently held the offices of Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary, Director of Education and Director of Food Production in Ceylon. From 1920 to 1923 he was Colonial Secretary of Mauri 4 hr and for the next five years he held a similar position in Kenya He administered the Government of Mauritius in 1921-2-3 and the Government of Kenya in 1925 and 1927 His next appointment was as Governor of Gambia in 1928, a position which he held until 1930, when he was appointed Governor of British Guiana. Four years later he assumed the office which he held at the time of his death.