OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16263, 13 July 1918, Page 7

OBITUARY.

i EAEL POULKPT. , ' (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright J (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 12th, 5.5 pwin.) LONDON, July .lli | The Uebtli is announced, of Earl Poulett. • ' A private letter received W WeUing. ton by the last mail from oft- , nounces tho deatli of Mr James HarolU x i who for moro than 25 years .was London secretary to the Wellington and -Mana--1 watu Railway ComiJany, Limited; Mr Harold, who was held iri very high esteem by the directors of the company, : had on several occasions given very ■ t prrftn.ti assistance in • dolicate.'. financial negotiations on behalf> of the company. • When the railway was acquired-by the 1 Government, tho Wellington directors ' acknowledged in a substantial manner , their great'appreciation his'long and I valuable services. Mr Harold, who had. ■ retired from active business.' some years > ago, and was living quietly at Boscombe, Hants, had never, visited New Zealand, J but took a keen interest in its affairs. Mr C. O. Rawlins died at his.home at Riverton on Wednesday evening after a few days' illness. Mr Rawlins, who wfl s 1 « mining engineer by profession, was born at Liverpool in 184<3. 'He landed \ at Lyttelton by the ship Mermaid in T ' 1875, and joined the geodetic survey • party on the West Coast. He wa6 after--9 warns engineer and general manager of e the Island Block Gold Mining Company. '' He represented Tuapeka in the House B of Representatives in 1896-99.