MEMORIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 15

MEMORIES.

' Your contributor, Mr. Neville Forder, should be more careful to give facte, not fiction, in his articles. In referring on Saturday to Messrs. Hay anl Honeyinan. lie said that both became doctors, and that Mr. Hay married a daughter of Mr. Berry. Mr. Honeyinan went to Edinburgh, where he passed the necessary examinations, and returned to Auckland a fully qualified doctor. Mr., afterwards Sir John, Hay went to Australia, where he managed the larg» property of his uncle, the late Mr. Berry. He did not marry Mr. Berry's daughter, as, some years before he went to Australia, he was married to Miss Jessie Sinclair, a daughter of Mr. Sinclair, who was sent to New Zealand by the Home Government as Colonial Secretary, which position he held until representative government was granted to us. His widow, Lady Hay, is still living in Australia. One of her sisters was married to the late Dr. David Bruce, for many years the minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Auckland, and another to the late Mr. Justice Gillies, a judge of the Supreme Court. I had the privilege of knowing all the family. OLD IDENTITY.