MAYOR OF SUMNER FOUND DEAD

Southland Times, Issue 23460, 17 March 1938, Page 6

MAYOR OF SUMNER FOUND DEAD

MOTOR-CAR DISCOVERED IN QUARRY

(United Press Association)

1 '■ CHRISTCHURCH, March 15. The Mayor of Sumner, Mr Th® l ?® 3 Newburgh, who was a member of tne Christchurch Stock Exchange, . was found dead in his motor-car in a quarry on the road between Marble Point and Hanmer Springs, about noon today. A length of tubing led from the exhaust pipe into the car through a rear window. , The body was taken to the Culverden Hotel and an inquest was opened later by the Coroner, Mr H. A. Young, S.M. Evidence of identification was given by a son, Ralph Leslie Newburgh, and the inquest was adjourned sine die. ft will be concluded in Christchurch. Mr Newburgh was born in Christchurch in 1882. He was educated at Sydenham School, and recently he was a prominent member of the schools Diamond Jubilee Committee. For 18 years he was employed by the Christchurch Gas, Coal, and Coke Company, Ltd. In 1915 he went into partnership with Mr E. R. Cay gill as accountants and sharebrokers, and he carried on this business while Mr Caygill served in the Great War. For a considerable time before his death Mr Newburgh was in business on his own account as an accountant and sharebroker. Mr Newburgh had been a member of the Christchurch Stock Exchange since 1916. He was a fellow of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, and a past master of the Robert Burns Lodge. He was a member of the Sumner Borough Council in 1927-28, and in 1935 he was elected Mayor. He was a former member of the executive of the Municipal Association of New Zealand. He was a keen bowler, being president of the Sumner Bowling Club for three years, and he was a past-president of the Sumner Life-Saving Club. Mr Newburgh is survived by his wife, one daughter, and four sons. CHILD FALLS FROM MOVING TRAIN REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM SERIOUS INJURY (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 16. A two-year-old child, Barry Humphries, son of Mrs Humphries, of Mount Eden, had a remarkable escape when he fell from a window of the Opua express near Kaiwaka. The child was travelling with his mother and fell from the train on a downhill stretch of the line. Another passenger promptly applied the emergency brake. The train was backed to the scene of the accident, when the boy. was found lying by the /side of the line and he did not appear to be seriously injured. At Paparoa the child was attended, by a doctor and was admitted to hospital. He is suffering from head injuries and will be kept in hospital for observation. MARRIED MAN’S DEATH INQUIRIES BEING MADE BY POLICE (United Press Association) HASTINGS, March 16. The police are making inquiries into the death of Sydney Louis Anderson, a married man, whose body was found at Marewa on Monday with a bullet wound in the head. The inquest was opened at Napier, and after evidence of identification, was adjourned sine die.