OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 11

OBITUARY

Mr. Albert L. Haslam The death occurred on Monday of a well-known Wellington citizen, Mr. Albert Llewellyn Haslam, of 23 Upland Road, who was general manager and attorney for many years of Millars’ Timber and Trading Company (Overseas) , Ltd. Mr. Haslam, who was the son of the late Mr. Haslam, M.L.C., Adelaide, came to New Zealand about

40 years ago as the representative of the above-mentioned company, and ■ listed a large timber yard in Taranaki Street, Wellington, specializing in those hardwoods which are produced in Australia and are so essential to certain classes of construction work. He married Miss Jessie Hannah, the (laughter of the late Mr. Robert Hannah, of Wellington, who predeceased him some eight years ago. Of a quiet, retiring nature, Mr. Haslam took no part-in. i public life, but was greatly esteemed for his probity and uprightness in business. He was a member of the Wellington Golf Club, the Wellesley Club, the Commercial Travellers’ Club and the. Wellington Racing Club. Mr. Haslam is survived by three

brothers, Mr. Justice L. H. Haslam,' Adelaide, Mr. W. O. Haslam. Adelaide, and Mr. S. H. Haslam, of. Muchea Innammika, Western Australia; and three sisters, Mesdanies Daisy Gwendolyn Stayner, of Dangan Estate, Mahaweta, Ceylon; Mabel Hesketh Home, of Yahalatenne, Kandy, Ceylon; and Olive Roach Richardson, of Crafers, Adelaide.

There was a large attendance at the funeral yesterday afternoon. The service at the mortuary chapel in the city was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Inkster, of St. John’s Church, who also presided at the service at the crematorium, Karori.

The chief mourners were: Mr. and Mrs. F. I-I. Johnson (brother-in-law and sister-in-law) and Mr. William Wiggins (brother-in-law). The pall-bearers were: Messrs D. S. Wilson, Campbell. Young, J. Hull, George Gore, G. Johnson and W. Wiggins. Among those present were: Messrs. W. F. McLean (Auckland), Mr. J. Quirk (Dunedin), S. Ivory, W. E. A. Gill, Gordon Reid. N. G. Johnson, A. Barnett, E. P. Norman and H. O. Pittendrigh (the last two representing R. Hannah and Co., Ltd.), J. H. Fowler, G. F. Wilson, J. S. and S. V. Hutchison, J. Hull, C. Harbottle, E. Casey, T. G. Coveney, W. •Luke, G. O. iSutton, A. K. S. Mackenzie, M. F. Luekie, A. Wylie, J. Halligan, F. H. Urwin/W. Aherne, George Johnson, W. L. Rothenberg, W. F. Ward, E. O. Cachemaille, W. J. Hobson and A. M. Anderson. Mr. T. B. Jobson The death occurred in Wellingtonrecently of Mr. Thomas Bloomfield Jobson, aged 89. Bdrn in Adelaide in 1850, be came to Wellington in 1874, to take up a position with Thompson and Shannon, and some years afterward joined the staff of Bing, Harris, and Co. In 1879 he married Miss J. Reid, Ilchester, England, who died 11 years ago. The late Mr. Jobson was a member of the Commercial. Travellers’ Association, which he joined in 1891, three months after it was formed. His onlv son died in 1913, and the surviving members 'of bis family are Mrs. W. Sutherland, Mrs. I. E. Barber, Miss Jobson, and one grandson. I. B. Barber, all of Wellington. Mr. H. 0. Toogood

The death, occurred in .Masterton last night of Mr. Henry Oscar Toogood, a well-known Wairarapa sheep-farmer, aged 78. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1861, the late Mr. Toogood came to New Zealand at an early age. He was educated at the Tokomairiro Grammar School, Milton, and began to earn a living at the age of eight. He spent some years in flax camps and on farms, and was for some time employed as a shepherd on the Ben Ohan station in the MacKenzie Country. He came to the North Island in ISBI and worked for some years on Mr. Edwin Meredith’s property, Riversdale, on the East Coast. In 1887 he leased a portion of Riversdale and later became the owner of Waiana, Kohiwai and other properties. About 12 years ago he purchased a portion of Sir .Mailer Buchanan’s Tupurupuru property, which he sold a year or two ago to Mr Borthwick. The late Mr. Toogood was, for many years, a member of the Whareama Road Board and a member of Masterton County Council from 1891 to 1921. He was a director of a number of companies, including Lowes and lorns and Abraham and Williams. Mr. Toogood travelled widely and made many trips to Great Britain, the United Stages of America, Australia ai> tlte Far East. He married first Miss Elizabeth James and a few years ago Miss Mabie McLeod. He is survived bv his wife and a daughter, MrsA. D. Gillies, Maraetotara, Hawkes Bav, and three brothers, Messrs. W. H. Toogood, Invercargill, J. A. Toogood, late of Masterton, and R. E. Toogood, Palmerston North.

Mr. N. J. McMurrich

Mr. Neil John McMurrich, a chief engineer in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited, died recently at his residence, Auckland. Mr. McMurrich. had been in ill-health for some months and was invalided ashore on July -8. Born at Onehunga on December 31, 1888 Mr. McMurrich served his apprenticeship with William Cable and Co.. Ltd. and joined the service of the Union Company on December 11, 1909. as seventh engineer of the Maori. After serving in a considerable number of the company’s vessels, he was appointed chief engineer of the Barori in April, 1925. lie was subsequently chief englneer of the Waitomo, Kartigi, airuna, Kaponga, Waikouaiti, Omona, Maori, Kaimanawa, Waimarino, Monowai, Tamahine, Makura, Waitaki, .Narbada, and was appointed chief engineer of the trans-Pacific motor-vessel Hauraki on November 1, 1936. This position he retained till coming ashore sick in February. During the Great War Mr. McMurrich was on Admiralty service as an engineer in the first Aorangi. Mr. McMurrich is survived by his wife and two daughters. He was well known and widely esteemed as a marine engineer and his death at the early age of 50 years, coming so soon after the sudden death last year of his brother, Mr. L. K. McMurrich, who was chief engineer of the Rangatira. is greatly regretted by his many friends. His father, the late Duncan McMurrich. was a wellknown engineer in the Union Company, and for some years was rhe company ssuperintendent in Wellington. The funeral took place at Auckland on Monday morning.