Obituaries Australia

Known throughout newspaper circles in the Commonwealth for the part he played in the counsels of the Australian Journalists' Association, Mr. Julian Edmund Tenison Woods, of Grange, died today at the age of 78 years.

Before ill-health caused him to retire from active newspaper work, Mr. Woods was for years South Australia's chief delegate to meetings of the Federal council of the A.J.A., where he was designated "the silver-tongued orator." Mr. Woods' legal training — he was admitted to the Bar in South Australia in his youth — was manifest in debate and in his press writings.

In sport Mr. Woods will be remembered as one of five brothers who played for the Norwood league football team. The others were Jack, Charlie, Edward, and James. Jack, Charlie, and Julian were members of the Australian championship side in 1878.

Mr. Woods served on newspapers in Western Australia, Victoria, and South Australia. For many years before his retirement he was employed by "The News" and "The Mail" as a sub-editor and leader writer.

Mr. Woods has left a widow, six sons, and four daughters. One son, Mr. C. J. T. Woods, was killed in action in the great war. The remains of the late Mr. Woods will be buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery, West terrace, late this afternoon.