OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26813, 19 August 1952, Page 2

OBITUARY

MR J. MCLEOD The death occurred in Christchurch last week of Mr John McLeod, a former constable in the New Zealand Police Force. Mr McLeod, who was 67, retired from the force four years ago. He had been in indifferent health for the last two years. Mr McLeod joined the Police Force in Edinburgh, Scotland, when he was 21. He was presented with the King’s medal while on special duty there. He then went to Durban, South Africa, and served for a number *of years in the Police Force before he came to New Zealand. Most of his career in the force was spent in Christchurch and ne was in charge of the Fendalton station for 11 years. After a breakdown in health he was transferred to the clerical branch and remained there until his retirement. Mr McLeod's main hobby was gardening and he had a show place while stationed at Fendalton. He is survived by his wife, a former police matron in Christchurch. MR A. W. CROSKERY (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 18. Mr Alexander Wellington Croskery, president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour since 1946, died in Wellington this morning. He was 74. Mr Croskery had been prominent in trade union affairs for many years. Bom at Swansea, Wales, Mr Croskery came to New Zealand with his parents in 1880. He was educated at Queen’s College, Auckland, and farmed in Taranaki before becoming a draper’s assistant in Wellington. He

went into business in Newtown and organised the Wellington Softgoods Union, and later the Amalgamated Society of Shop Assistants, of which he was secretary for 25 years. He was secretary of the federation for 12 years.

Mr Croskery was also secretary of the Saturday Half-Holiday Association for three years, chairman of the Lyall Bay School Committee, and of the School Committees’ Association. He contested seats on the Wellington City Council many times, was a member of the Wellington Hospital Board from 1935 to 1941, the workers’ representative on the second Court of Arbitration for 12 years, and vicepresident of the Wellington Trades Council.

In 1945 Mr Croskery was New Zealand delegate to the world trade union conference in London, and in 1949 he was workers’ delegate to the International Labour conference. Mr Croskery’s wife died last year.