Yachtsmen’s Friend Passes

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THE death of Sydney Schofield, veteran NZ lighthouseman, occurred suddenly at Kaitala, northern New Zealand, in mid- August.

The name of Sid Schofield prob ably will ring a bell only with those men who have navigated little ships across the Tasman or northward to the Islands in post-war years. Sid was at Cape Reinga Light—nor themmost-manned lighthouse in NZr— and a keen radio amateur.

Provided the word was passed to Sid—and it usually was—he was always ready to maintain radio schedules, at any time, with any yachtsman passing through his area. His weather reports and other services to the sea-borne radio Ham were invaluable, and he was genuinely interested in their welfare and progress. The yachting and radio amateur fraternities will mourn his passing.