OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17890, 5 July 1926, Page 9

OBITUARY.

SIR ADOLPH TUCK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Recerved July 5, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 4. The death is announced of Sir Adolph Tuck. Sir Adolph Tuck, who was created a baronet in 1910, Avas chairman and managing director of Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., art publishers. He was president of the Association of Publishers of Christmas Cards and Calendars. and president of the Association of Publishers of Picture Postcards. He w r as also treasurer of Jews’ College. He was born in 1854, and educated at Breslau, entering his father’s art business in London in 1869. He inaugurated the first of a series of original Christmas card designs exhibitions at the Dudley Gallery in 1879.

MAJOR C. D. PITT. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, July 5. The death has occurred of Major C. D. Pitt, a Avell-knoAvn figure in Auckland and PoA-erty Bay in the early davs of the colony, aged eighty-two. His grandfather in 1847 was commander of the forces in New Zealand. His father. Colonel Pitt, assisted in the. formation of the first Waikato Regiment in 1864. Deceased serA-ed in the Waikato campaign and later in the West Coast and Urewera fighting. He Avas promoted in 1870 to be inspector of the Armed Constabulary, and later entered farming and commercial pursuits.