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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1939, Page 4

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The death has occurred of Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse, former First Sea Lord, and Chief of the Naval Staff, who resigned a month ago, a London cablegram reports. Sir Charles Norwood, accompanied by Lady Norwood, will leave Wellington at the end of the week for Auckland to connect with the Mariposa for the United States of America, on his way to England. Colin Gillies, the 1936 All Black fiveeighth, will not be available for Otago’s Rugby representative matches this season) having advised the selectors that he does not intend taking any further part in, big football. Mr J. Buckley, son of Mr G. Buckley, conductor of the Auckland Artillery Band, has been awarded a German national scholarship in music. For the past two years he has been studying at the Leipzig and Berlin Conservatoria.

Mr W. J. Gray, a veterinary surgeon formerly attached to the Agricultural Department, with his wife and family, will leave Wellington on Friday by the Awatea, to take up an appointment with the Government of Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa). At Sydney they will join the liner Ulysses for Durban.

The death occurred at Dunedin yesterday of Mr David Kirkwood Torrance at the age of 74 years. In his younger days he was a well-known Rugby footballer, playing for the Kaikorai Club and representing the province on numerous occasions between 1888 and 1895. Later he acted as referee and also served on the executive of the Otago Rugby Union. The death has occurred in New Plymouth, in his 81st year; of Mr George Corney, who had lived all his life in New Plymouth, and till three years ago was one of the town's most active business men. Beginning his career as an apprentice to the drapery business, Mi Corney established and managed a business for Mr C. C. Ward under the name of the Excelsior Drapery. Foui years afterward, in 1896, he started the Devon Street drapery business that bears his name. Three years ago he retired from active control of the business. Mr Corney was one of the founders' of the West End Bowling Club, which some years ago made him a life member. He was also a director of the New Plymouth Gas Company and of the Mortgage Loan and Agency Company.

The death has occurred of Mr Harold Dentice, of Wellington, aged 51. Mr Dentice was a principal of the firm of Whiteacre, Dentice and Co., land agents, Wellington. He was born in Wellington, and educated at Newtown School. He was a member of the Wellington Trotting Club, and of the Miramar Golf Club. He was also a member of St. Andrew’s Masonic Lodge. Mr Dentice is connected with a very old Wellington family, the same as that after which Dixon Street is named, and his maternal grandmother was one ot the first white twins born in New Zealand. The twins married brothers. The Dixon family, in the early days produced the “Independent newspaper. Mr G. H. Dixon, of Wellington, was the manager of the 1905 All Blacks team. Mr Dentice leaves a widow and five children