OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 3

OBITUARY

MR. ('. IT. Tin: I IKS \ well-known figure in shipping and msincss circles. Mr. <\ H. Hughes, ,vhose death occurred recently ,ov. was associated with the Union gleam (ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, for fio years. Ho joined the s'alf of the company as a junior clerk in iho Svdnev office in IS7O, four years „(■(or the firm’s formation, and made rapid progress. He became assistant manager in Sydney, and about- l.sp.t he was appointed agent for the Union Lino in Fiji. ! ; ’or a period he was secret ar v of llie head office. I lien situated ia Dunedin, and later lie was .appointed manager in llobnrl. From ihere lie went to Melbourne as manager, and oveilttial ly. he succeeded the laic Mr. David Mills as Sydney manager, which position he held until June, 1934, when he retired.

The death occurred at l’icton recently of Mr. Arthur Turner Bartlett, at the age of 82 years. The late Mr. Bartlett was born in London iu 1854 and be arrived iu New Zealand in 1879, baying travelled from Thames with his parents on a small sailing vessel, the Robert Small. FI is youth was spent in Nelson. IJo joined the New Zealand Railways 56 years ago at Pieton. and worked his way up to the position of bridge inspector.

The death of Commissioner Samuel Logan Brengle, which was announced from Searsdale, New York, this week, brought to an end a notable Salvation Army career. Commissioner Brengle pioneered the movement in India and 1 was one of the Army’s holiness teachers. Ho travelled .widely throughout the world in the course of evangelical missions, lie was what is kno rn in the army as a “spiritual special,” and in addition to his platform work in many countries he was a prolific and versatile writer on Salvation Armv and general religious topics. He visited New Zealand some years a^p.

The death occurred at her home in Christchurch oil Saturday oI: Miss Miriam Davis, an aunt of Mr. Ernest Davis, Mavor of Auckland, and the Hon. Eliot' It. Davis, M.L.C., of Auckland. -Miss Davis was a daughter of Mr. Ilyain Davis, a prominent early settler in Nelson and a leading wine and spirit merchant. She was born in Nelson and was educated at Christchurch, where she had lived ever since. Miss Davis was, in a most unostentatious way, an extremely kind and charitable woman. She was a sister of Mr. -Moss Davis, a benefactor of Auckland, who died in England in 19113, and of two prominent Christ church business men, Mr. M. Davis and Mr. .1. Davis, who also died in recent years. She is survived bv a brother. Mr. L. Davis, and two sisters, Mrst IT. .1. Raphael and .Miss T. Davis, ol Christchurch.