OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR H. D. VICKERY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 2. The death has occurred at the age of 65 of Herbert Douglas Vickery, an accountant, and a former chairman of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board. Born in Dunedin in 1882, Mr Vickery completed his education at Victoria University College. He had

been practising as a public accountant in Wellington since 1908 in the firm of Vickery and Rowden. Mr Vickery was an examiner in accountancy to the University of New Zealand, and in 1930 he was a member of the committee for the revision of the Companies Act. From 1910 to 1921 he was secretary of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and he was also the first secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. In 1931 he was appointed a member of the Hawke’s Bay . Earthquake Adjustment Court. From 1931 to 1936 he was chairman of the New Zealand Broadcasting Board. Mr Vickery was a director of several companies. MR J. A. MUNRO An authority on sailing ships and a collector of Maori carvings, Mr John Alexander Munro, has died at Auckland at the age of 75 years. Mr Munro’s parents came to New Zealand from Nova Scotia in the barque Ellen Lewis and settled at Waipu in 1860. From 1888, when he went as a boy on the barquentine Stanley, until he left the sea in 1906, Mr Munro sailed on many well-known ships in the coastal and inter-colonial trade. Last year the Canterbury Museum made a special exhibit of a large collection of sketches he had made of the sailing ships he knew in his youth. The sketches, which showed a high standard of draughtsmanship, were photographed for the museum’s historical records. His collection of Maori carvings which he reproduced from ancient fragments, will become exhibits in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Mr Munro is survived by his widow and one son, Mr lan Munro, of Christchurch. His younger son, Pilot Officer Eric Thompson Munro, was killed while serving with the Royal New Zealand Air Force.