OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 271, 28 August 1933, Page 6

OBITUARY.

SIR NICHOLAS LOGKEFL jUnited Press Association-r-Copyright). (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Tins Day. Sir Nicholas Locker, who was the first Commissioner of Taxation in New South Wales, is dead, aged 78. MR W. C. CARGILL. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, August 27. The death has occurred of Mr Willian Clement Cargill, of Morrinsville, aged 63. From 1892 to ISO2 he was proprietor of the ""Wairarapa Star," •ater known as the "Age," and from 1904 until 1908 he controlled the "Patea Press." Subsequently he startled the "Pukekohe Times" and then purchased the "Morrinsville Star." At the time of his death he was managing director of .the Cargill Publishing Company, which publishes the "Morrinsville Star," "Matamata Record," and Pataruru Press." Mr Cargill was president of the Master Printers' Federation from 1928 until 1030.

THE REV. GEORGE LINDSAY. to the " Guardian.") CHBISTCHUkCH, This Day. The Rev. George Lindsay, a retired Minister of the Presbyterian Church, died at his residence, Riccarton, yesterday. Mr Lindsay, who was 87 years of age, had been in failing health in recent years,' and his last illness had extended oyer only five days. _ , The greater part of Mr Lindsay's active ministry Ayas at Invercargill, where for twenty-three years he was minister of St. Paul's Church. In 1911 the Church bestowed upon him the highest honour in ts gift when it elected him Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Mr Lindsay retired from the charge of St. Paul's in 1911. He had suggested to his congregation some years before that it might be better for the parish to have a change of Ministers, and that especially the congregation might wish to have a younger man to lead it, but he yielded to a strong anneal from the largest congregational meeting ever held in St. Paul's to remain at Invercargill. For two years Mr Lindsay was at St. Clair, Dunedin, and then for five'years at Southbridge, retiring from the active ministry in 1918. For the last fifteen years he had lived quietly at Riccarton.

Mr Lindsay is survn'ed by his wife and three sons, Mr A. M. Lindsay, superintending engineer of tramways in Montreal.; Mr E. Charles Lindsay, the distinguished Harley Street surgeon, who two years ago performed a successful operation on Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester; and Dr. A. Bonar Lindsay, formerly of Christchurch. and now at Cachar, Assam.