OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 24 March 1923, Page 5

OBITUARY.

I'AJPTAIX A. S. MeCiIBBOX. (By Telc-gra.p'u.—Own) CxMTPFrpondun:.) < "HRISTI HURCH, Friday. Tlic <loath is announced from London of v well-known murine oflicer, Captain A. S. MrGihhon. who for many yvars traded ljetween Now Zealand " and Britain. lie was at different times master of the steamers Devon, Surrey, Kent, Kssex, and Cumberland, and it was when lip was in charjre of tlie lastnamed that she was mined off the Australian toast en route to England with a full cargo. During the Hoer War Captain MeUibbon conveyed some of the contingents to South Africa, lie retired from tlie sea about two years ago and had 'Iwen residing in London. 3lc married .Miss Roxburgh, of Christchurch, by whom he is survived. MR. N. 0. DF.NNEN. An impressive ceremony*tool< place on Wednesday afternoon at Onehunjfa Cemetery at tlie funeral of the late Mr. I Kelson Obcd Dennes. of Dominion Road. ' Deceased was a member of the R.A.0.8., and his interment was the first occasion on which the burial service of that order was used in Auckland. There was a large gathering of the brethren, the ; burial service being condiicted by Knight I Denning, and it created a profound imj'pression. The forming of a broken link , consisting of f>- brothers who each at the I conclusion of the ceremony dropped an ivy leaf on the coffin, will long be remembered.