OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 18

OBITUARY.

The death occurred on Saturday morning, after a protracted illness, of Mr David Allan Graham, who was for over 10 years gas engineer under the City Corporation. The deceased was born in 1841 at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and served an apprenticeship at Dundee to the mechanical engineering trade. Chemistry and mathematics were subjects to which he specially applied himself, and, with a view to stuJy these branches of learning, he toolc a course at St. Andrew's University and subsequently at Glasgow University. Having completed hi 3 preparatory training, he secured at varions times several responsible appointments in the old country, among them being that of gas engineer at Stale? bridge. He was recognised as an authority upon the manufacture of gas, in proof of which it may be stated that he was engaged by the Charing Cross publishing fi~m of Messrs E. and F. N. Sporr to write a treatise on the comparative commercial value of g:is coal and cannels ; and this work, which forms one of a series of text books relating to applit d science, was completed jutt prior to MiGraham's departure from England to accept the appointment, in succession to the late Mr Genever, of gas engineer iv Dunedin, which was conferred upon him in September 1882. He arrived in December of the same year, and held charge of the gasworks until his continued ill-health necessitated his retirement last April, when he was granted six months' leave of absence. He suffered from a complication of diseases, dropsy being one of them, to which there could only be the termination which came to them on Saturday at his residence at Anderson's Bay. The deceased married after his arrival in the colony, and leaves a widow and two little girls to mourn their loss.

The death is announced th : s week of Mr Paul Frcdric, a well-known citizen. He bad been for several years a member of the Albany street School Committee, and alwa>stook great interest and pride in this work. He was alsj an enthusiastic volunteer and was a sergeant in the North Dunedin Rifles. The members of that corps attended his funeral on Monday.