OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17605, 22 October 1931, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR. K. -C. ROY SIMLA, Sept. 7. In the Legislative Assembly to-day. Air. Kosiuiv Chandra Roy, a nominated unofficial member and founder and .director of the Associated- Press ol India, was stricken with apoplexy. He was seen to slide from his bench to the floor and was carried out to the lobby insensible. Ills wife was summoned, and n doctor was called, who ordered his removal to hospital, where he died. His body was burned according to Mohammedan rites. Mr. Roy was a man of great journalistic ability and wide knowledge and experience of public affairs. He exerted a considerable influence all over India, and bis death will be regarded as a great loss. He was a member of the Moderate delegation which wont to London in 1919 to give evidence before the Joint Select Committee on the Bill based on the iVlontague-Chelmsford Report. From the ■beginning 10J, years ago lie was a member of the bicameral Central Legislature, first in the Council of State and later in the Assembly, where he tat as a nominated non-official member for Bengal. Jio was a member of a Committee- appointed* by Urn Government, of India in 1924 for the examination of questions atTecling Indians domiciled in British Colonies not possessing responsible, goytornmont. lie was one of the founders of the Indian Journalists’ Association, and was in London last year as a dolomite to the Empire Press Conference, fie was created- G.I.H. in 1923 in rceoginition of his services during ami aftei ithe War as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Jnformat ion.

The Rev. Reginald; Merniou. a wellknown Anglican minister, died in ilo.lmorston North on Sunday, uged ; 70 (years. The death occurred- in a Sydney hospital on October 15 of William Charles Brown, electrical engineer of' the inter'colonial steamer Maiingaiiui. On the voyage from Wellington, MV Brown took ill, and his condition was such that on arrival at Sydney lie was removed to hospital, where lie died from double pneumonia soon after admission. The funeral took place this afternoon of the late Mr. F. W. Clark, the college leaving St. John’s Church, Mangapupa. The late Mr. Clark was a South African War veteran. He loft New Zealand with the Eight Contingent of* Mounted Rifles. The 'Gisborne South ■African Veterans’ Association, and also the It.S;A., wore represented at Uio funeral. Tlio death at Richmond on Sunday oi Mrs.’ John Sutton at the age of 96’ *years, removes a Nelson settlor .who arrived in the settlement in February, 1P42, tlio month of the foundation of tho town, in the sailing ship Mary Anne. She had boon a. resident of Richmond for close on 70 years. A family hf: toil out of eleven children are* loft, and there are 35 grandchildren, 4- great igiandOhildron and 2 grout great grandchildren 1 * Mr Donald Munson, who passed away a f his residence, Anderson’s Bay, on Wednesday, October 14, at the ago of •92 years, was- born in Caithness, Scotland, and emigrated 1 ' to New Zealand while a youth. Landing at Auckland, h j . mado his way to Ha wke’s Bay, mid subsequently went to Otago. Mr. Manson was an enthusiast on. tho breeding, ing of purebred stock, and his services as a judge were largely utilised af shows. One of the Taieri’s prominent farmers—Air. Alexander Moynihan—passed away on Saturday at his homo at •Tlreenlawn,” Momona. He was con versanb with life on tile Taieri in the early days of settlement, and right' through the years took a keen interest I'm tlio welfare of the district. He was hern in September, Issß, at Rathcqnaiie House, Killai-riey, Ireland, and came to New Zealand at the ago of 17. Mr. Moynihan was a. well-known exhibitor at agricultural shows, it. keen judge of stock, and a. prominent figure at the Burnside, market. A turn of the wheel of Fate is recalled by tho death in New Plymouth of Mrs. John Adolph Bavcli, at tlio age of 89. whose husband, Captain Bach, was commander and owner of the ,l>ai quo Selma, which mysteriously disappeared with all hands on its voyage from Brisbane to America in 1896. Captain Bach and Ins brother, alter many years at sea, entered shipping on their own account, purchasing the Selma. Captain Bach was anxious before sailing on his last voyage that his wife should go, but was she was unable to sail with him. Somo months‘after tho Selma was posted at Lloyd’s as missing, it being assumed that tlio vessel was wrecked with all hands. The following year Mrs. Bach came to New Zealand to visit her daughter, Mrs. L. O Andrews, of New Plymouth, and she resided there until her death.