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OBITUARY. ---: 0:. Mr. Henry Phillip Coy, formerly of Terang, died at Malvern on Friday last in his sixty-eighth year. The late Mr. Coy in association with his brother, Mr. F. C. Coy, many years ago purchased from the late Mr. M. Lang the storekeeping business in Terang. whicch is now the property of the Terang and District Co-operative Society Limited. When the Messrs. Coy Bros. became the proprietors of the business it was conducted on a comparatively small scale; but as the large estates in the neighborhood were cut up and settlement increased, the business increased also, until it be- came one of the most important in the Western District. In addition to being a keen, shrewd business man, the late Mr. Coy had an aptitude for work of other kinds, and when exten- sive additions were made at intervals to the firm's premises, it was Mr. Coy who prepared the designs and super- vised the carrying out of the work in all its details. It was under these conditions that the whole of the present large two-storey premises were built. For a great many years Mr. Coy was a member of the Hamp- den Shire Council, and he was probab- ly one of the ablest and most far- seeing councillors that the shire has possessed. Mr. Coy also took an ac- tire interest in matters pertaining to the local Church of England, the Me- chanics' Institute, the Racing Club, and other public institutions in Te- rang, and in connection with all of them his advice was always sound