OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26261, 4 November 1950, Page 2

OBITUARY

MR Eb Jk GIFFORD (New JPHm Association) WBLUNGTON, November 3. The death occurred to-day of Mr Edward Joto Gifford, Acting-Secretary for Justice and Acting-Controller-Geii-erai of Prisons. He was S 3. Mr Gifford joined the Public Ser dee from NeMont College as a cadet, in the Internal Affaire Department in 1915, transferring to the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, in ifilg. After holding various positions he was appointed an inspector in 1933. Last year he was appointed aMistant Under-Secretary to the Justice Department, and when Mr S. F. Barnett went overseas he was appointed acting-permanent head of the department

MR R. J. BOOTH

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. November 3. The death has occurred in England of Mr R- J. Booth, general manager for New Zealand for Messrs Roberts (New Zealand), Limited. Mr Booth, who was 59, had been associated with Messrs Roberts all hh working life, and became general man aged 24 years age. He was born in Auckland and served with the New Zealand Forces overseas during the First World War. On his return to New Zealand he rejoined Messrs Roberts and became one of the best-known and most highly-respected men in the textile trade. He is survived by his wife and a daughter, Mrs G. D. Speight, of Aucluand, who are at present in England.

MR J. FISHER

(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, November 3. Mr John Fisher one of Southland’s best-known residents and a wellknown figure in the dairying industry in New Zealand died at Woodlands yesterday, aged 87. Mr Fisher, who was born in Invercargill, obtained his secondary education at njght school and from private tutors. Mr Fisher attended almost every important dairy conference between 1916 and 1946 as a representative of Southland or the South Island. Among the dairy organisations with which he was connected were the Dairy Control Board, the New Zealand, Producers’ Marketing Association, the ‘Farmers' Dairy Federation, of which he was a director and chairman of directors for 24 years, and the Southland Cool Stores. In 1937 he was an associate member of the New Zealand delegation which attended the world dairy congress in Berlin, a gathering of 2900 delegates from 57 countries. On that occasion what Mr Fisher had to say was broadcast throughout Germany.