OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 2

OBITUARY

COLONEL JOHN WARD (Elec. T«l.’Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Received Dee. 20, noon) LONDON, Dee. 19. The- death occurred tq-day of Lieut,Colonel John Ward, a former member of the House of Commons.

The late Colonel Ward, who was 68 years of age, served in the Sudan and the Great War, for -which he raised five labor battalions. He was a prominent member of the Labor Party, having joined the Social Democratic Federation in'lßßs. "He sat in the House of Commons as an Independent from 1906 to 1929.

MR. J. G. SWAN

i The death occurred in Wanganui on i Sunday of Mr. John George Swan, who ’ rendered very full service to the city aim"district. Re was an elocutionist of note, and his ability in this direction i was always available in the cause of chairity. He was a son of the late Mr. G. H. Swan, who was Mayor of Napier for several years. Mr. Swan entered business in Wanganui; and was connected with Swan’s | brejwery before becoming licensee of Ohevannes Hotel, ope of the oldest ; houses in the Dominion. His talent as ' a tyeatrical organiser was availed of when the, Swankers Club was formed in the days of the war, and he took a prominent part in the establishment of the j Competitions Society in 1920. The Wanganui Trotting Club, Cycling Club and Caledonian Society all owed him a dety of gratitude, and in his younger ' days he Wa.Ua captain in the Irish Rifle Volunteers.