OBITUARY Mr N. Holmes

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31660, 22 April 1968, Page 7

OBITUARY Mr N. Holmes

Mr Noel Carlisle Holmes, district soil conservator in Dunedin, died recently aged 44. Before taking up his Dunedin post he had been a soil conservator in Christchurch. Born in Christchurch Mr Holmes was educated at St Andrew’s College and Lincoln College and completed a diploma of agriculture in 1948. He continued for a year to do a course in soil conservation. In 1951 Mr Holmes was appointed soil conservator at Invercargill. He moved in 1954 to Christchurch where he worked with the Department of Agriculture and with the water and soil division of the Ministry of Works. In Southland he was engaged in pioneer work in the Mid Dome soil conservation reserve. He was associated with Mr D. J. Hickey on the Glenmark catchment control scheme in North Canterbury. His main duties in Christchurch were to service the North Canterbury and South Canterbury Catchment Boards, and to carry out soil conservation extension work outside the catchment authorities. In Dunedin his district included Otago and Southland, and included three catchment authorities. In Christchurch he was secretary of the Canterbury section of the Institute of Agricultural Science. He was a foundation member of the Association of Soil Conservators. He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. MR F. STEWART "The Preu" Special Service AUCKLAND, April 21. Mr Frank Stewart, pioneer film cameraman, aerial photographer and aviator, died in Auckland last week at the age of 79. He had returned to his Herne Bay home only a few hours before from Rotorua, where he had been trout fishing. Mr Stewart went to the Antarctic with the Australian, Dr Douglas Mawson, in 1912 and he travelled to many parts of Australia and New Zealand in search of photographs. He was closely associated with making early silent films in New Zealand. Mr Stewart was one of the first people to make a film of a world title boxing bout—that between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson, in Sydney in 1908. Police entered the ring and stopped the fight in the fourteenth round. He was cameraman for the film "A Maori Maid’s Love,” which was made in New Zealand, and also for “Lady of the Cave,” which was filmed on Mayor Island under the direction of Mr R. C. Hayward, of Mount Eden. He later joined the newspaper, the “Sun,” in Auckland as chief photographer. In the 1930 s he developed an interest in aerial photography, flying often with Captain J. D. Hewitt from a small airfield near where the Savage Memorial has been erected. In 1934 he joined with Flying Officer C. Kay as crew in Captain Hewett’s de Havilland Rapide, Tainui, which came sixth in the centenary air race from London to Melbourne. In 1936-37 Mr Stewart formed a partnership with the late Mr Leo White to do aerial photography. During the Second World War he did photo-copy work for the American forces. Mr Stewart is survived by his wife and three sons.