Obituary DR. ROBERT JACK

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 3

Obituary DR. ROBERT JACK

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, May 1.

A former Professor of Physics at Otago University. Dr. Robert Jack, has died in Dunedin. He was 74.

Dr. Jack held the chair of physics at Otago University for 35 years. For the last nine years, he was Professor Emeritus.

Dr. Jack was the first man in Otago to send messages by radio. For some time when radio was in its experimental stages he transmitted from the University buildings. Dr. Jack took his M.A. and D.Sc. degrees at Glasgow University, where he carried out research work. Later in Germany-, under Professor Voight, he did further research and obtained his Ph.D. He also studied and did research at Sorbonne University, Paris.

In 1909, he was appointed a lecturer in physics at Belfast University. In 1913. he was appointed as Professor of Physics at Otago University.

MR J . E. GREEN

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 2.

Mr James Esdale Green, who was among the first pupils to attend the Christchurch Normal School, and was prominent in amateur sport in that city, has died in Auckland, aged 92. When he retired, at 54, he was Superintendent of Telegraphs at Auckland.

Mr Green was born in Christchurch in 1805. His father arrived in New Zealand at the time of the Gabriel’s Gully gold rush, landing at Dunedin with a shipload of horses.

Mr Green joined the Post and Telegraph Department in Christchurch as a messenger, when he was 14, and he later served in the main centres.

In Christchurch, he took an active interest in amateur sport, and from 1899 to 1906 he was secretary of the Pioneer Amateur Sports Club. In 1908 he took a team of amateur athletes to Australia and Tasmania, where they carried off nearly all the honours at every meeting. A keen cyclist, Mr Green toured nearly the whole of New Zealand when roads were poor, noting mileages and items of interest from which he prepared New Zealand’s first road guide. When the Automobile Associations, many years later, took up this task, they were surprised at the thoroughness of his work. After his retirement he served two terms on the Onehunga Borough Council.

Mr Green was twice married and is survived by one son and four daughters.

MR A. H. DICKSON

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, May 2.

A former Dunedin City Council electrical engineer, Mr Arthur Howden Dickson, has died in Dunedin. He was 66. Mr Dickson was a member of the New Zealand Institute of Engineers, a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and a chartered engineer. He was a past master of the Masonic Lodge and a keen bowler, having been a member and past-president of the St. Kilda Bowling Club.

Provincial Scout Conference

Officers and laymen of the Bpy Scout movement will hold their annual provincial conference at Tyndale House this week-end. Administration matters will be discussed, including “Operation Jubilee,” district organisation, training, religious policy, warrants and property. The conference will open this evening. Sessions will be held throughout to-morrow and on Sunday morning a Scouts’ Own — an iriter-denominational service—will be held.