OBITUARY.
SIR WILLIAM A. SMITH. ■ /! By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright. LONDON, May 10. The death has occurred, suddenly, of Sir William Alexander Smith, the founder of the Boys' Brigade. [Sir William Smith was born in 1854 at. Thurso, and in 1883 founded the famous Boys' Brigade. In 1908, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation, he commanded a parade of 10,000 boys before Prince Arthur of Connaught,j
JOHN M'VAY.. "P'fffls Association. WELLINGTON, May 11. Private advices received here record the death at Napier yesterday-- afternoon of John M'Vay, a well-known resident and a member of the racing conference.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 80, 11 May 1914, Page 10
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