OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17949, 29 November 1932, Page 6

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN W. D. REID AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER Cabled advice lias been received of the death in Sydney.on Saturday of Captain VV. I>. Reid, R.N.R., at one time superintendent ui' marine in Auckland. Me was over 70 years of age. Captain Reid bad an adventurous career, having experienced several shipwrecks. The eldest son of the late Mr. S. Reid, who was a merchant in the city’s early days, he was born in Auckland and entered the merchant service as a youth. At the time of 11.M.5. Calliope’s exploit in escaping from Apia Harbor in the teetli of a hurricane, his vessel was driven on to a Pacific island, and for three weeks the .crew kept hostile natives at bay from behind a barricade of wreckage until they were rescued by French missionaries from another group. When the Elingamite was wrecked on the Three Kings, Captain Reid, who was a passenger, took charge of the landing operations, and was instrumental in saving many lives, for which he was honored by the Royal Humane Society. During the war, Captain Reid saw a great deal >f active service with units of the British and French Fleets. On five occasions the vessels on which lie served were torpedoed. 110 first served on patrol boats in the North Sea, one of his ships striking a mine, but eventually limping in to Scapa Flow. He was with the relief expedition to Kut-et-Amara, lie. was at the landing at Gallipoli, he commanded a troopship conveying Chinese to ■ the Western Front, and he saw a great deal of mine-laying and submarine-chasing in the Adriatic. Only a few years ago he helped to. put up a desperate light to save a schooner which sprang a leak in a storm off the coast of Scotland. The vessel became a total wreck, and the crew, including Captain Reid, were saved with a lmnd-line. CAPTAIN THOMAS JONES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Nov. 29, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 28. Captain Thomas Jone 3, of Ilford, died aboard the Port Wellington, of which he was commander, on the eve of the vessel’s departure for Australia.

Miss Alary Appleby Lambert, who died at her residence at Rose Bay, Sydney, on Monday of last week, aged 94 years, was the eldest daughter of the late Colonel Charles Lambert, of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. She" was born in Kent, England, and went to New Zealand in 1857 with her father, who was an Imperial military officer for more than 20 years. He made his borne on the Huataniwha- Plains, Hawke’s Bay, and was one of the pioneers of that district. Miss Lambert was in her early days a capable horsewoman, travelled extensively overseas up to a few years ago, and was possessed of remarkable vitality almost to the last. She is survived by two brothers —Messrs. B. Lambert (of Alarlon, N.Z.) and H. A. Lambert (of Neutral Bay).

Airs. Broad, widow of the late Air. I.owilier Broad, District Judge, of Nelson, who died there 40 years ago, and Hie member of a well-known family, died in Wellington on Saturday, well advanced in years.

Another Auckland pioneer has passed away in Hie person of Airs. Cl. N. Boult, of Avondale. Airs. Boult came to New Zealand in 1863 and arrived at Auckland in the Devonshire on the day the Orpheus was wrecked on Mnnukau Heads. For a time she lived on a small farm in what is now llemuera, but left the district when Maori War hostilities broke out at Orakei. She later took up residence at Northern Wairoa.