OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17343, 3 January 1922, Page 10

OBITUARY.

SIR THOMAS SUTHERLAND, (By Cable—Presa Astooi.i:x?n—Cipyriyiii.) (Au»tr»Han ar.d i'.Z. C*b'.o Asq».-i»t!- l 6) LONDON", January i. Thi- cioatli i.-- ,nii:;uii!.'oil ut »»; r Thomas nuthcrli'.iul. [Sir Tlinmas G.C.M.G., wns born nt Abordooti in ISM, :uid, cr, completing his odnV.itinn i-.t. .\'t-riirr-University, ontorod tho >ervjro ot th--I'. «iid 0. 'Company. Ho in Chi; t for soino years, and ultimately ro-u? Imi tho head of thai K r y*''t s.)ii company in Japan Mid t'iiina. Iu 13,,; ho returned to Knghind, to ixron-.o ai. sociaU'd with tho r.iaiuigo;r.ont, uf t.r..-. I'. and O. Company in i. ;r Thomas Sutherland became chairman of tho company ill 1881, and he tvL! thr,•. position continuously until IS'l-J ing all those years his naino wai irsejiarablv associated with ti'o grnw.i; and progress of tho I\ and 0. Op . nany. In ISS-i lio instnur.ental :r. imnping about- an acreotrient bet^p^ r tlw Suez Canal Company and the lish shipowners, and ho l)or:un» chair, man of tho I/ondon Hoard c; t!:e C;, r .a: Company, which jnisition he huh! m, till his death. Ho Groonor'x in tho House of Commons from to i?oo.i DR. R.EGIXAU) FAIUIAII T.OXHON. IX'cemK'r IV Tlio death is announced of ]>r. 1;. aid Farrar, a son of tho late I', nr. Parrar, from typhus, nt 'Moscow, v.r.t-,-ho originated famine relief work 1 behnlf of tho of Nations r.r.o tho R<?d Cross Societies. CLAUDE LONDON. IVcemh. ;- Tho death if, announced of O'im Allin Shepperson, painter and i'.!;:;, trator. SENATOR. H. rFAP.Osn. (Received January '2nd. ")0 p WASHINGTON, January 1. Tho death is announced of S-.'nc'.,:r B. Penrose. [Boies Penrose was born at l'mlr.dolphin, in 1860, and praduated B A. .1: Harvard in 1881. 110 was admitted t > tho Bar in 1883, and practised in 'n:s nativo city. Ho had )>eon a i.teialir of the United States Senate for four terms, from 1897 to 1K?1.1

3ni H. G. mooiu;. : Mr Herbert Gifford Mooro, r.no o; ' Pnlmerston North's beet-known citizen?, ; died last wools nt tlio apo of ,53 y; For Homo time past he had boon in failing health find Ihnd but recently rrttsmicd from a trip to the Unit:-d States I Amorica. The late Mr Mooro was tmrn | m 1863 in Newry, County llimn, Ire|land. Ho on mo to the Dominion when ■ i two years of afro in tho rare of V.vs i father, tlio Into Charles Gifford Mono, C.E., m tho ffliip Coeleno. Ho wnn educated in Onntnni, whoro hi.-*, l.ith'T landed find settled, nnd also at (.'hri'-t n College, Christchurch. Ho joined ti« South British Insurance Com jinny in Oamaru as a junior in IS7H, and en tered tho Post. Office a year later. After six years, during v.iliicli 1m was mail liftont on the .San I''r:inei«eo steamer for on© voyage, ho left tho Civil Service nnJ > travelled for a business patent. SnK. sequontly Mr Moore took up statim lifo in North Canterbury, but in IWH entered upon t.ho business of a flnxni'ller in Ashburton, which ho conducted for four years. Having studied Ir.w in Christehurch, Mr Mooro was admitted , ns a solicitor by Mr Justiro Dcn-iiston i in 1.889. Ho prnetif*d 3iis profession j in Hokitika for sis months in nnd in Ashburton till 1801?. when ho removed to Palmerston North and fi.vi resided tbero over einoo. Mr Mo-rowii for many. vonrs in partnership with Mr J. Bruce ileale, who now lives in Trmranga. In later yenrs ho was mwVS partner of the firm of Messrs Gif^? - i Mooro, Onelev. Kelly, nnd TremL * Tho Into Mr Monro was well kno>*» a sportsman, and he was tho prent majority of snorts bortT»« in Pnlmerston North- In his earlier days ho was a keen polo player. Ho wae a particularly enthusiastic member of tho Mnnawatu Golf Club, of which no had liield tho championship. Ho was oi«o an ardent fishernian nnd shot, and wna for years tho provident of the I'.iimerston North Acclimatisation Society.

Mr Len Barber, well known in cr>m- : mercinl circles in Wellington, died last ' week, after a brief illness. The lot" Mr Barber was for many years in th<j employ of Mr Georjre Winder. nnd <>? J ! Messrs H. Price nn<l Co., and latterly j i lie had engaged in business on his own ' i account. His death wna due to ,n fp-to ■ attack of pneumonia. Ife leaves a -ridov. - * . And five yonntt children to inoiini t -fi*-1 p • loss. The In to Mr UnrlK-r, ulin «ns J years of n?c, '.vns n popular jnfipix-r of ™ the Civil Scrvire O'ub, in t;i" :idinini«- j tration of the affairs of which lie took I an active part. 1