OBITUARY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 12

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN L. GILLAN Captain Laurence Gillan. formerly master of the Union Steam Ship Company’s intercolonial vessel Kawaroa. who died last week in Christchurch after a short illness, was one of the company's senior masters. He was SO years of age. Captain Gillan became ill on August 17 while the Kawaroa was in Lyttelton and was removed to hospital. Captain Gillan, who was born at North Shields, England, served as an officer with the Burma Oil Company and British Tankers, Ltd. and gained his master's foreign going certificate in 1918. He came to New Zealand in 1922 and entered the service of the Union Steam Ship Company in 1925 when be was appointed chief officer of the Otokia. Altogether he commanded IS of the company’s ships in the coastal cargo and coal trades as well as in the intercolonial service. Captain Gillan. who lived in Wellington. is survived by his wife and a daughter. DR. J. A. GREIG A well-known medical missionary, Dr. James A. Greig, died at his home at Kerikeri last week, aged 88 years. Dr. Greig was born at Edinburgh and volunteered for missionary service with the Presbyterian Church. After qualifying in medicine he was appointed by the Irish Presbyterian Church to Manchuria, North China, where for 40 years he was stationed at the capital of the Kirin province. This period covered the Boxer Rebellion, the Russian-Japanese war, toe founding of the Republic of China and the First World War. He travelled extensively to and from Scotland and crossed Siberia before toe railway was opened. When the Russian refugee problem became acute after the First World War, Dr. Greig was appointed League of Nations representative for the Far East. De. Greig retired to New Zealand,

in 1926 and after a brief period at Seatoun, Wellington, he settled at Kerikeri in 1928. Dr. Greig met toe emergency medical needs of the new district for the first 15 years. He is survived by his widow, who joined Dr. Greig in Manchuria in 1903, and by five sons. ' MR A. E. RUSSELL (NZ. Press Association—Copyright) [ z SYDNEY, August 29. i The death has occurred in Sydney , of Mr Albert Edward Russell, a New i Zealander, who was well known in . radio and advertising circles in Syd- • ney. Mr Russell came to Sydney more i than 20 years ago as a broadcasting personality. Teamed with another i New Zealander, Mr Reg- Morgan, he ; conducted various radio sessions. • When Mr Morgan returned to New • Zealand, Mr Russell cr"tinned to work j in radio until he entered the advertis- • ing field in the early years of the last war. He was a partner in toe firm of Russell. Morris Advertising Agency.