OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 247, 30 July 1937, Page 6

OBITUARY.

THE REV. FREDERICK T. READ. CHAPLAIN DURING THE WAR. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Rev. Frederick Thomas Read is dead, aged 70. At the time of his death Mr Read was a member of the North Canterbury Hospital Board and a member of the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association and acting as supernumerary minister at the Heathcote Methodist Church. He had a long association with the Christchurch R.S.A., being a member of the executive from 1930 to the time of his death, and president from 1931 to April, 1935, being, during part of that time, chairman of tho Benevolent Committee of the branch. Mr Read volunteered for active service in 1914, and was chaplain on the hospital ship Marama in 1915. Going to Egypt, he made three trips in that vessel from Egypt to England with wounded, and except for nine months spent at a machine-gun camp at Papawai, remained with her until he returned to New Zealand in 1918. MR W. J. HOLDSWORTH. AUCKLAND, July 29. The death of Mr W. J. Holdsworth, aged 65, after a long illness, is announced. He was managing director of W. J. Holdsworth, Ltd., warehousemen, chairman of the Auckland Power Board since 1922, a Rotarian, a local preacher in the Methodist Church, Auckland president of the British Israel Association, headquarters commissioner of the Boy Scouts’ Association, Auckland member of the Local Government Loans Board, 'and president of the New Zealand Land Settlement League.