OBITUARY.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19634, 22 July 1935, Page 8

OBITUARY.

SIR CHARLES HOLDSWORTH.

WELLINGTON, Monday

Advice has been received by the Union Steam Ship Company that Sir Charles Holdsworth, formerly managing director of the company, died in Loudon on Friday, aged 72 years. The late Sir Charles Holdsworth, who was a son of Mr J. 0. Holdsworth, , formerly Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, was born in Wellington, and was educated at Wellington College. He entered the office of the Black Diamond Line in 1880, and was subsequently appointed branch manager at Westport. When ■the Union Company purchased the Black Diamond fleet in 1880, Mr Holdsworth transferred his services to the Union Company, and remained at Westport in the capacity of manager until IS9I. when on the purchase of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company’s business, he was appointed the Union Company’s manager for Tasmania. In 1898 he returned to New Zealand as chief manager and inspector, an office which was changed into that of general manager in 1901. In 1909 he became a member of the board, and on Sir James Mills’s resigning the active control into his hands early in 1914, he was appointed managing director. He guided the company’s operations during the anxious and difficult times of the war. In accepting with regret the resignation of Sir Charles as managing director in 1931 the board of directors passed a resolution expressing their appreciation of his valuable and important services over a period of 45 years. Ho still, however, remained one of the directors of the company. For his services to New Zealand and the Empire in the way of shipping he was honoured in 1926 with a knighthood. During a few years prior to 1931 he attended to the . company’s affairs in London, and made occasional visits to New Zealand.

MISS E. M. WILLIAMS,

(Hy Telegraph.—Press Association.) • GISBORNE, Monday

The death has occurred of Miss Evelyn Maud Williams, daughter of the late J. W. Williams, member of Parliament from JS73 to 1879, and a sister of the Hon. K. 3. Williams-, M.P. for Bay of Plenty.