OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 5

OBITUARY

MELBOURNE ART DIRECTOR

LONDON, Feb. 15. The death has occurred of Bernard Hall, who contracted a chill on February 6, during a visit to the country. He developed double pneumonia and was taken to a West Rid nursing home, gradually sinking until death took place last nigh’t.

Lindsay Bernard Hall, who was 75 years of age, had been director of the National Art Gallery and Museum of V ictoria since 1892. • He studied art in England and on. the Continent, and started professionally in 1882, exhibiting at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. He was twice married and has three sons and one daughter.

DR. HERBERT GILES

(British Official Wireless.)

Rec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 15. Dr. Herbert Giles, formerly professor of Chinese at Cambridge University, whose knowledge of the language and literature of China won for him a worldwide reputation, died yesterday, aged 90 years. 6

A link with the very early days of Paeroa was broken this week by the death of Mr. William Turner, who had resided there longer than any other man. He was born in Whangaroa 69 years ago.

Mr. James Clothier has died at Hamilton, aged 85 years. Mr. Clothier * was born in Somerset, England, and as an infant, came to New Zealand with his parents. Mr. Clothier spent many years farming at Ivaiapoi. During the last 25 years he lived in retirement in Hamilton.

Mrs John Oliver, of Terrace End, Palmerston North, formerly of Norseivood, died recently, aged 85. She was well known in the Norsewood Methodist circuit, having, with her late husbnnd, the Rev. John Oliver, worked taithfully for the interests of her church.

An Auckland exchange records the loath of Mr. George 11. L. Tancred, or Re mu era, son or the late Captain Tancred, of Weens, Roxburghshire, Scotland, and a nephew of Sir Harry Lumsden, of the Guides, who was mainly instrumental in the introduction of khaki in the British Army. Mr. Tancred was a descendant of a family which served in the British Army and Navy for many years. lie was in Queensland at the . outbreak of the South African War and was the first nan to enlist there. When the Great * War broke out, Mr. Tancred joined the Royal Scots Fusilers, later reaching the rank of captain. He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters. Major James McNaught, who was a member of the early volunteer regiments, has died at Wanganui. He lelonged to the Highland Rifles. Mr. McNaught was born in Australia 68 years ago and came to New Zealand when a child. He was apprenticed to the tailoring trade in Dunedin and Anally became head of that department for Messrs J. Paul and Co., Wanganui. lie was one-of the keenest students of defence in the Dominion and was engaged by the authorities to ’our New Zealand, and submit a report of his observations.

Cabled advice has been received of the death at Plymouth, England, on February 11, of Mr. Montague Darke, 65, formerly a well'known resident of Hamilton. Mr. Darke, was born in England, and came to New Zealand 35 years ago. He took up land on the Tuhikaramea road, Hamilton, and later joined Air. G. Boyes as a partner in a land agency business. Air Darke volunteered for active service in the Great War and held the rank of quar-termaster-sergeant. For many years Mr. Darke was secretary of. the Hamilton Club.

The death of Mr. Walter 'Sharpe, of Wanganui, removes qne of the bestknown New Zealand oarsmen. As a vouth he joined the Union Boat. Club in the nineties, when rowing was in its infancy. “Wally” Sliarpo soon proved himself. He had the physique and the ability of a sound oarsman, and started his career by stroking Wanganui’s first champion four at the Christchurch Exhibition in 1907. In 1915 he was again a member of the winning four and had developed a natural ability to coach young rowers, an asset to which the sport in Wan-o-anui owed a great deal right up until the time Air. Sharpe was laid aside with illness. In an administrative capacity, .also, lie proved of great value.