OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27046, 22 May 1953, Page 2

OBITUARY

MRS TINI TIRIKATENE Mrs Tini Arapata Horau Tregerthen Tirikatene, who died recently, was born at Tuahiwi 87 years ago. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Tuhuru, the paramount chief of Westland. She became the adopted daughter of Aperahama te Aika'. She studied Maori lore to become an accomplished historian, orator and leader. She was a pupil at the Tuahiwi Native School and the Rangiora District High School. She was a very fluent speaker in .both the English and Maori languages, and for some years was an advocate before the Maori Land Courts.

Mrs Tirikater.e’s birth rights in the tribe of Ngaitahu entitled her to be a member of the many sub-tribes of the Ngaitahu. She was keenly interested in the arts and crafts of her race, sports, and Maori affairs generally. She was the patron of many sports organisations. Mrs Tirikatene was the widow of the Rev. J. D. Tregerthen Tirikatene. She is survived by two sons, Messrs E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., and J. H. Tirikatene, and by six daughters, Mesdames J. Newson, Pere Williams, A. Fluerty, J. Black. Manihi, and J. A. Mokomoko, all of Canterbury.

MISS J. L. BECK

Miss Jeanie Lyall Beck, for many years one of the outstanding members of the nursing profession in New Zealand, died recently. The announcement of her death will bring sorrow to many of the older generation of nurses, and to the very many persons to whom she (ministered with skill and kindness during her long life. Miss Beck was born in Dunedin and trained as a nurse in the Christchurch Hospital under the late Matron Ewart. She showed great enthusiasm for the work, ’and became successively sister and sub-matron at the hospital, and for one year, while Miss Ewart was in England, she acted as matron. After Miss Ewart’s return, Miss Beck and her friend, Sister Weisman, went to Melbourne and took their midwifery training. On their return to Christchurch they opened a private general hospital in Gloucester street near Latimer square and conducted it with outstanding success for 14 years. After retiring. Misses Beck and Weisman visited England and then lived at Mount Pleasant until a few months ago, when they returned to the city. Miss Beck did much to found the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association, of which she was a foundation member, and treasurer for several years. In appreciation of her work for the branch she was elected a life member.

A woman of Stirling character, an excellent nurse, and an organiser of great ability, Miss Beck was admired, respected and esteemed by three generations of nurses and by the many doctors with whom she worked.

She is survived by a sister and a brother, both of whom live in Dunedin.