Judge Wanliss

Dead

16 Years in New Guinea

Colonel D. S. Wanliss, Cmg, Vd,

BA, LLB, who was Chief Judge ih New Guinea from 1921 until 1937, and who several times acted as Adminis trator, died in Melbourne, where he was living in retirement, on September 25, at the age of 79.

Judge W?anliss (as he was generally known) was bom in Victoria and edu cated at Ballarat College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted a barrister of Inner Temple, London, in 1888, and he later practised at the Vic torian bar, in Ballarat and in Mel bourne. In World War I, he went abroad with the AIF, as commander of the Fifth Battalion; he was in the Gallipoli land ing; and then he suffered from typhoid, and was evacuated to Australia.

For some time, he was commandant of the Sixth Military District, in Tasmania; and in 1921 he joined the New Guinea service.

During his sixteen years of service, Judge Wanliss became very .well known in the Territory of New Guinea, and his charming social qualities, no less than his erudition, gained him innumerable friends.

The late Judge Wanliss.