OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 October 1933, Page 9

OBITUARY

Mr. J. A. Shand The death occurred yesterday morning at Lower Hutt of Mr. James Arthur Shand, who was best known in Wellington as chief sub-editor of the defunct “New Zealand Times.” He had been a sufferer for some time past, but his passing was a peaceful one. Born in 1869, Mr. Shand was a son of the late Mr. George Shand, formerly of the Taieri district, Dunedin. He was educated in Dunedin and commenced his journalistic work on the Dunedin “Star.” Subsequently he removed to Auckland, where his knowledge of mining stood him in good stead. He was also dramatic critic of the “New Zealand Herald” for a time. In 1899 he left for South Africa ns correspondent for a number of New Zealand newspapers, and was with the New Zealand contingents in their advance on Pretoria. On his return to New Zealand he was appointed editor of the Thames “Star.” His two sobs left New Zealand with the Main Body in 1915, and that year Mr. Shand resigned from the “Star” and left New Zealand as officer commanding A Company of the 11th Reinforcements, and later became Assistant Provost-Marsha! at Sling Camp, Salisbury, England. On the conclusion of the war he returned to New Zealand, and was appointed chief sub-editor of the “New Zealand Times,” a position he retained until that paper ceased publication. He was then commissioned by the Government to write the official history of the New Zealand contingents in the South African War. He was closely associated with the Returned Soldiers’ Association and the South African Veterans’ Association. For a time he was organiser for the United Party’s political organisation, and later was publicity agent for J. C. Williamson, Ltd. Mr. Shand leaves a widow, two sons. Messrs. A. L. Shand, Dargaville, and G. P. Shand. Petone; four daughters, Mrs. F. Malcolm, Wellington; Mrs. H. A. Finney, Auckland, and Misses Elizabeth and Muriel Shand, of Lower Hutt. Two sisters are Mrs. J. Lomas, Maoribank, Upper Hutt, and Miss J. Shand. Dunedin. There are also four grandsons and one granddaughter. The funeral to the Karori cemetery will leave the mortuary chapel, Taranaki Street, at 11 a.m. to-morrow. Mrs. E. E. Chamberlain The death occurred at her residence. Cole Street, Masterron. on Saturday, of Mrs. E. E. Chamberlain, at the age of 86 years, states a “Dominion” Special Service message. The latd Mrs. Chamberlain was born in Urray, Ross-shire, Scotland, and with her widowed mother, Mrs. I. McKenzie and family, came to Wellington about sixty-seven years ago by the sailing ship Asterope. As a bride she went to “Rosewood,” Upper Plain, where she and her late husband resided for over sixty years. The road to the Upper Plain in those days was merely a track through standing bush. Mrs. Chamberlain is survived by a family of two sons and four. daughter#. There are twenty grandchildren and two greax-grarraciiira-ren.