OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 272, 16 November 1937, Page 8

OBITUARY.

MR. ARTHUR W. PAGE

The death occurred yesterday at his residence, Rosemont, Mountain Road. Mount Albert, of Mr. Arthur William Page, in his seventy-fifth year. Mr. Page was born in Birmingham and shortly afterwards came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Portland.

After being educated at a private school in Auckland he joined the firm of E. and A. Isaacs, warehousemen. At the age of 22 he started in business on his own account as a grocer and general merchant in Kingsiand, where his store became a well-known landmark.

Mr. Page was president of the Auckland Master Grocers' Association for several years and was also for some time president of the Mount Albert Bowling Club. He was a i >mber of the Masonic Order, and \va> i warden at St. Luke's Anglican Chuv h. Mount Alhert. Mr. and Mrs. Page celebrated their golden wedding on June 21 of this year. He is survived by his wife, two sons and three daughters. MR. JOHN PRENTICE McMILLAN. A former Otago Soccer representative, Mr. John Prentice McMillan, aged 04. died in Auckland yesterday. Born and educated in Lanarkshire, Scotland, Mr. McMillan came t-> New Zealand r>o vears

ayo, completing his education in Dunedin, where he later took up the vocation of commercial traveller. He ; , saw service at the Great War, enlisting at Timaru. He was associated with the ,'Returned Soldiers' Association and the i Commercial Traveller* and Warehouse,j men's Association. He leaves a widow i but no children. i