HON. G. W. RUSSELL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 7

HON. G. W. RUSSELL.

DEATH OF FORMER MINISTER.

EARLY DAYS IN MANAWATU

A Press Association message from Wellington reports the death of Hon. G. W. llussell, to-day, at Eastbourne, Wellington. Mr Russell was a member of the Mackenzie and National Ministries, M.P. for Riccarton from 1893 to 1896 and 1899 to 1902, and for Avon from 1908 to 1919. Mr Russell was born in 1854 in London, his family later going to Tasmania and then coining to Wellington, where he was apprenticed to the Evening Post. For three' years he was a probationer for the Wesleyan ministry, but resigned. He was appointed sub-editor of the Wellington Chronicle in 1878. He later established the Manawatu Herald at Foxton, owned the Manawatu Times and still later established the AVaikato News. He moved to Christchurch in 1889 and established the business of Russell and Willis, printers, owning the paper the Spectator. Mr Russell, as stated, was a member of the House of Representatives for Iliccarton and Avon in turn, and in 1912 he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Health, holding the portfolios again from 1915 to 1919, and, in addition was Minister for Marine. He was at various times clostjy identified with educational institutions. Mr Russell was the author of “A Manual of Duties of Life,” “A New Heaven,” “New Zealand To-day” and “Citizenship.” He had a most interesting career and a very retentive memory which was revealed in numerous articles and publications coming from his facile pen. He will be remembered by many of the old residents of the Manawatu for his work, through the journals he controlled, for the advancement of the district. ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM FISHER. LONDON, June 25. The death has occurred of Admiral Sir William Fisher. Sir William Fisher lias been commander-in-chief at Portsmouth since last year. He was born in 1875. Ho served in the Euro poan War, commanding H..M.S. St. Vincent at the Battle of Jutland and was Director of the Anti-Submarine Division at tlie Admiralty in 1917-18. Then followed appointments as chief of staff of the Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-22. and of the Atlantic fleet, 1922-24. In 1924-25 he was RearAdmiral of the First Battle Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet, in 1927-28 fourth Sea Lord, from 1928 to 1930 Deputy Chief of Naval Staff and, after being second in command of the Mediterranean Fleet foi two years. be became Commander-in-Chief of the, Fleet until his appointment to Portsmouth. REAR-ADMIRAL SIR HAMNET SHARE. LONDON, June 27. The death has occurred of Paymaster-Rear-Admirai Sir llamnct Holditch Share. Born in 18&4, Sir Hnmnet Share entered the Royal Navy in 1880 and serv-. ed on various foreign stations. He saw service during the Egyptian War, 18v82, and the Great War, being at the Battle of Jutland. He was private secretary to Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, Governor of New South Wales, in 1903-4 and to Lord Northeote, Gover-nor-General of Australia from 1904 to 1908. He was Admiral Jellicoe’s secretary during the Great War, retiring from the service in 1921. COLONEL H. L. COOPER. NEW YORK, June 25. The death has occurred at Stamford, Connecticut, of Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper, hydraulic engineer, the builder of the famous Dniepostroy dam, in Soviet Russia. Colonel Cooper was one of the first of the outstanding engineers to be brought from abroad by the Soviet Government to help it in its Five Year Plans. He designed and largely built works totalling 2,000,000 h.p. and costing £40,000,000, in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Russia and Egypt, the principal ones being the hydro-electric plant of the Mississippi River Power Co., at Keokuk, Indiana, the Toronto Power Co.’s plant at Niagara Falls, the 620,000 h.p. work nt Muscle Shoals, and the 750,000 h.p. work at Dnieprostroy.