OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 22149, 2 October 1935, Page 14

OBITUARY

SIR WELL WVYAN (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 30. Air Vice-marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan, who was in the Navy prior to 1918 and served at the Dardanelles, died today, aged 60. MR CHARLES WILLIAM STUART Mr Charles William Stuart died suddenly last evening at his residence at 54 Douglas Terrace, North-east Valley. He was born in Scotland a little over GO years ago and educated in accountancy, being first employed in the Scottish Town and County Bank before emigrating to the Dominion about 40 years ago. Ho was first engaged in the head office of the Colonial Bank in Dunedin, from which he was transferred to the Bank of New_ Zealand in Wanganui. Later he resigned from this position to commence an accountancy practice in Dunedin until ho accepted an appointment on the Garden Gully dredge, Waikaka Valley, with which he was associated, finally as dredgemaster, until it closed about 1905. Two years afterward he became shipping clerk for the firm of Keith Ramsay Ltd,, while in 1918 he took over the duties of coastal shipping clerk for H. L. Tapley and Co., being still employed in this capacity up till the time of his death. Apart from business his hobby was gardening. He is survived by his widow and two single (laughters. * MR A. L. MUIR A Gisborne Association message records the death, early this morning, after three mouths’ illness, of Mr Allan Leonard Muir, for half a century associated with the ‘ Poverty Bay Herald,’ 44 years as editor, and 21 years as managing director. [Mr Muir was born in 1871, the son of a journalist, and the grandson of the founder of the Wellington ‘ Independent.’]