SAD FATALITY IN AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 10 April 1902, Page 2

SAD FATALITY IN AUCKLAND.

,' DEATH Off MR R. E. DOWLING. ' On Wednesday .'ifternoon Mr P. S. , Whitcombe, secretary of the Taranaki . Education Board, received a telegram s from the secretary of the Auckland ' Education Board stating that a ' gram had been received from the Gnat ' r Barrier Inland informing him of the I death, on Monday last, <>l Mr R. E. . Dowling, whose wife was undei stood to > r be a teacher under the Taranaki Board. j Needless to say, the news came as a ' great shook to Mrs' Dowlir.g, the well--1 known and esrteemed mistress of the 1 West Infants school, and to the ' numerous friends of deceased hero, , more as Mr Dowling was in ! New Plymouth for a week atEister ! and seemed particularly bright and cheerful. Mr Dowlitg was a man of I exceptional ability and was a welcomo 1 contributor to saverat newspapers, of which the Dmdc News was one. He 1 was a teacher of considerable experience. He came to Taranaki from the VVeHt Coast, whera he was headmaster of a largo school, which he resigned to I take tho position of firs'-, assistant at! the Central Sehoil, New Plymouth, lOn lowing'that position, he filled tha j position of hmtdmaster of thellowan-l road and Bird-rond schools. Ho resigns! the hist position about two years 1 ago (having been under the Taranaki j Board for afiout 10 years in all) to take up organisation work under the Auckland JBo.u-d. Ho Ind rdmrge of throe schools on the Great Bonier Island, \ one of which was at Port Pitzroy, I where his death took place asi reported. He leaves a wife and family j of five children, who wiil havo the sin-1 core sympathy of everyone on account, of the severs shock of his death. Wa j understand his remains will 1)9 interred i at the Great Barrier, which is some 60 ; or 70 miles from Auckland by steamer, I which only runs once or twice u week, j Mrs Dowling, we understand, proceeds to Auckland next week. 1 From the Press xVssoeiation telegram ! relative to Mr Dowling's death wa' 1 gather that it resulted from self-in-.' flictud injuries, if this is correcS ife j adds another distressing element to the i sad case, and we should assume that 1 t,ho caus?» is traeeublo 10 a recurrence I' of the milady for which Alp Dowling i was treated some whilo tack, when he t underwent an oparatiou that proved > very successful. .'t