Obituary MAJOR D. B. HIGGINS

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 12

Obituary MAJOR D. B. HIGGINS

“The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND. October 20. Major D. B. Higgins, formerly a riding instructor at the Royal Military College. Sandhurst, has died in Auckland, aged 76. Among his pupils there were J Lord Norrie, the former Gover-1 nor-General. Sir Geoffry Scoones.| the former United Kingdom High Commissioner. Lord Alexander, the Duke of Marlborough, and General Sir Richard McGrery. Major Higgins served with the 21st Empress of India Lancers and the Royal Horse Artillery. He was commissioned in France in 1917. He spent four years in India!

as a riding master and retired' there when the Army oecame 1

mechanised. He came to New Zealand in | 1924. and bought a dairy farm at Matamata. He retired from farming in 1935. Interested in organic farming, he was a member of the American Academy of Nutrition. During the Second World War he was an organiser of waste products. FLT.-LT. A. J. C. CLARK (New Zealand Press Association} | DUNEDIN. October 20. i Flight Lieutenant Allan John; Charles Clark died in Dunedin last week. He served 18 years in ! the Royal New Zealand Air Force; and was awarded the M.B.E. in the Queens Birthday honours! this year. His death occurred, after a long illness. Born in Dunedin in 1926, Flight! Lieutenant Clark joined thei R.N.Z.A.F. soon after the outbreak of war in 1939. He was commissioned in 1942 and served' as an instructor at Omaka and. Levin before becoming an officer : instructor at Woodbourne and then Levin. After the war he served as adjutant to several units till 1947. when he was put in charge of a school of non-commissioned officers at Wigram. He was alsoj, connected with the General Ser-i vice Training School at Wigram and Burnham before being transferred to Taieri in December,1955. MR A. H. CRAWLEY (New Zealand Press Association) NELSON, October 20. Mr Alfred Hugh Crawley, formerly manager of Newman Bros, in Nelson for 25 years, has died.' He was 74. He was a past-president of the New Zealand Federation of Justices. During the war. he was chairman of the Nelson Cityj Patriotic Committee.