OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18547, 6 November 1934, Page 5

OBITUARY

DR. F. UOULRURN HIP.AON

(Ter Press Association.)

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The death occurred suddenly on the Riecarton racecourse to-day of Dr. Frederick Goulburn Gibson, 03, a wellknown medical man and a prominent sportsman. He dropped dead outside the weighing-in room. He had been in poor health and to-day was having his first outing for some time. MR. f. R. TRIPE (Ter Press Association.) ROTORUA, last night. The death .occurred last night of Mr. Thomas Richard Tripe, (57, a member of a wcll-kndwn Wellington family. Deceased had gone to Rotorua to setS his brother, Mr. A. H. Tripe, prior .to leaving on a trip to Tasmania, when he became suddenly ill and died.

Mr. Tripe was bOrn in Eaugiora in l 80", being the fifth son of the late Dr. William Borrondalo Tripe. Going to Wellington with liis parents in 187 S, he received his education at the Mount Cook School and Wellington College, and joined the staff 6f the Union Steam Ship Company in 1884. With that firm he served in many Capacities, ultimately becoming manager at Launceston, Tasmania, in 191(1. He retired-frotn the company’s service about three years ago. ARCHIIISHOP SPENCE (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) ADELAIDE, Nov. 6. The death occurred yesterday of the Most Bov. It. W. Spence, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, aged 74 years.

The late Archbishop Spence was horn in Cork and educated in Ireland and Lisbon, being ordained in 1882. Returning to Ireland four years later, be was attached to various houses of his order, In 1898 he went, to Adelaide, being appointed Archbishop in 1914.

MR. V. MOI7ESWORTH

SYDNEY, Nov. 6-

The death is announced of Mr. VoL taire Molesvvorth. a journalist, formerly] managing! editor of the defunct Daily Guardian, and also a former Labor Parliamentarian, aged do years. MRS. A. ,1. TRAIL! The death of Mrs. Ruth Craig-, rt’ifci of Mr. A. .1. Craig, occurred suddenly at' her home last night, and removes ofn‘ who had lived for 67 years in New Zen-, land. Her death came as a shook to her; relatives, to whom the sympathy of a large number of friends will be extended. The late Mrs. Craig was born in North dunes, Victoria, and at the ago of five years was brought to New Zealand by her parents. .Mr. and Mrs, Christopher Clarke. Mr. Clarke was ;s mining engineer, and he came to New

Zealand with the owners of the Brunner mines, to . open them ufi. Most- of the latd Mrs. Cfaig’s early life was spent on the West Coast, where she married Mr. Craig, later living it Palmerston North and Danrievirkc before coining to, Gisborne in 190 b During her residence here she was Actively connected with the Church of England, and this, year was made a life, member of the Church of Resurrection Ladies’ Guild, Te llaparn. She made many friends, and there will he widespread regret at her death. The late Mrs. Craig is survived by her husband, three daughters and four'sons, (he family comprising Miss Emily Craig. Mrs; J. M. Borhain and Mrs. A. F. Salmon, all of Gisborne; Mr. A. S. Craig, Hokitika ;' Mr. Christopher Craig, New South Wales'; -Mr. Herbert A v Craig, To Puke; and Mr. Bobert Craig, Tauranga. , The interment will take place! at the Taruheru cemetery to-morrow afternoon.

Mr. Albert Spencer, president of tbo Auckland Employers’ Association, who died in a Wellington hospital on Friday, aged 68, went to Wellington to attend: the annual conference of;"the New Zealand Employers’ Federation in his usual health, hut suffered a chill, contracted pneumonia, . and death followed. Mr. Spencer had been president of the Auckland Employers’ Federation for many years, and latterly had given practically the whole of his fjme to the affairs of the association. Ips printing and stationery business, in Auckland and other centres of the Dominion being in the hands of his two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer only recently returned from a holiday visit to