OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 171, 16 April 1931, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR. F. G. DALZIELL Man of Great Ideals An earnest student of sociology, and well known as the author of numerous petitions to Parliament based on bis humanitarian ideals, Mr. Frederick George Dalziell, aged 64, died in Wellisgton yesterday. He resided in Hobsou Street and retired from the legal firm of Findlay, Dalziell and Co. a few years ago. The late Mr. Dalziell was born in Auckland and educated .at New Plymouth. He studied law and was admitted to the Bar when 28 years of age, commencing practice at Palmerston, Otago, with the late Sir John Findlay, then Dr. Findlay. ' Two years after his admission he opened his own practice at Lawrence and later he joined the Wellington firm of Findlay, Dalziell and Cx>. Authority on Company Lap’. Deceased was highly respected as an authority on company law and had long experience as advisor. to the Bank ot New Zealand. For many years he was chairman of directors of the “New land Times,” which was absorbed by Ine Dominion” four years ago. He married a daughter of the late Hon. Dr. Morgan Grace, M.L.C. At the time of his deatn he was. managing-director of the TaupoTotara Timber Company. In his later years Mr. Dalziell devoted much time to the study of community and national welfare, and his unorthodox but sincere proposals for dealing with social ills were widely known and frequently praised for their searching analysis ot modern problems. Many admitting the virtues of his ideas, considered his vision went far beyond his ■ generation. ,ihe essence of his belief was that the uni\erse was designed and controlled on the basis of the one law of “Bear ye one another's burdens.” From this simple outlook he pictured the community as a great partnership. He deprecated the aim of one section of the community to live on the other. He advocated the mobilisation of property and services to ensure that every unit would be used to full capacity in the national scheme ot production, while allowing reasonable living and maintenance for all people in the huge partnership. Vision of the Future. His petitions to Parliament became known as the “Truth of Life Petitions and he issued a number ol pamphlets, including “Banking,” “Permanent finance in New Zealand,” “Organisation of Peace,’’ “Parliament of New Zealand, 1920,” “Truth of Life,” and "Professor Einstein’s Discovery.” He also reprinted in pamphlet form his early petitions, the first pamphlet in this connection being entitled "Petitions of K. G. Dalziell to the Parliaments of New Zealand.” r , ..' The technicalities ol life and livelihood were anathema to him and be claimed that all community troubles could be avoided by simplification of existing laws and customs. His ideas were courageously submitted to Parliament with an appeal for an investigation of Ins convictions by a committee. The obstacle.in the way of testing Mr. Dalziell s lheories proved too intricate. Mrs. Dalziell and one daughter survive. The private interment will take pliicc to-day.