Death Of Sir George

Richardson

THE death occurred suddenly in Auck land on June 12, at the age of 70, of Major-General Sir George Richardson, who was Administrator of Western Samoa from 1923 to 1928 —a period of considerable political unrest in the Ter ritory.

Sir George Richardson was a man of brilliant parts. He began life as a humble private in the British army. He became a military instructor in New Zealand in 1891; was representing New Zealand at the War Office in London in 1914; and he was on the staff of the Royal Naval Division at Antwerp and Gallipoli and of the 12th Corps at Salonika. He was knighted in 1926.