OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 15

OBITUARY

MR A. J. DENTICE. The (.lent!* occurred Inst week oi Mr Albert J. Dentice, an old resident of Wellington. Born m Christchurch 67 years ago, being tho oldest sen of the Lite Mr Leopold Dentice, Mr A. J. Dentice went to Wellington with his parents and learnt the plumbing trade. For the last thirty years, he was employed by the Wellington Gas Company. In the days when theatrical companies regularly visited Wellington, Mr De ntice was a well-known 1 figure at tho Opera House, where for thirty-two years he attended _ to the switchboard. As a philatelist, Mr Dentice was widely known, and at all times he w.is ready to place his superb collection of Spanish stamps at the disposal of the Philatelic Society for exhibition purposes. In 1882. Mr Dentice married the eldest daughter of ] the late Drum-Major James Phillips, 78th Highlanders. He is survived by hu> widow, three sons, aiid a daughter —Messrs Albbrt, Claude, arid Norman Dentice, and Mrs Woottort. MR WILLIAM FRASER. Mr William Fraser, confidential r.lerk of the Wellington legal firm of Messrs Trendwell and Sons, barristers and solicitors, died on Friday night at hie residence, Oriental Bay. Mr Fraser, who was a well-known old resident of Wellington, was formerly one 61" the city's most prominent athletes. He was an ortr«man, belonging to the Wellington Rowing Chib, and as a footballer played {'or the Athletic Club, mainly as n centre three-quarter. Mr Frnser leaves n. widow, hut no family. MR ALBERT WILLIAM MORGAN. Mr Albert William Morgan, who was formerly District Traffic Manager of Railways at Invercargill, and who has been retired for the past seven years, died at his residence, Abberley road, St. Albans, yesterday xncviiit'S-

Mr Morgan -was born at Lyttelton in ! 1867, was educated in Christchurch, and at the age of tlvelVe entered the railway service as a cadet ' in the accountant's office. After holding several positions at stations near Christchurch and in Christchurc.'; itself, he was appointed chief clerk at Timaru in 1896, and occupied that position until in 1908 he was appointed stationmaster at Auckland. In 1915 he came to Christchurch as assistant traffic manager, and in 1917 went to Dunedin in the same . capacity. In 1919 he went to Invercargill to take the position of District Traffic Manager, which he occupied until his retirement in 1924. After his retirement his interests were in his garden and in golf. He was a prominent member of the Christchurch Golf Club. He was a member of St. Augustine's Lodge of Freemasons. Mr Morgan is survived by Mrs Morgan, by two daughters, Misses Joyce and Eavma Morgan, and by two sons, Mr R. A." Morgan, of Christchurch, and Mr G. M. Morgan, of Mastcrton.

DAME MARY SCHARLIEB. (UKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION* —BV ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) J.OKDON, November 21. The death ia announced of Dame Mary Scliarlieb. [Dame Mary Scliarlieb, M.D., an octogenarian (,«hc was 85 years of age), began her medical studies in Madras in. the 'severities while living there with her husband, a barrister, practising in India. It was her health that sent her home to England, and widowhood that decided the career in which she won deserved success. Besides the magnificent work which she did at the Royal Free Hospital for Women, where she latterly was consulting gynaecologist, she was consulting surgeon to the New and South London Hospitals ior Women, and a Governor of St. Mary s Hospital, Paddington. For some time she lectured at Madras University. In 1908 her many friends presented her with a portrait of herself, in token _of her self-denying services to medicine and her sex. Later she sustained a bereavement in the loss of her daughter, Elsie. In 1917 she received the C,8,T2.» and in 392« the P.B.'K.]