OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 13

OBITUARY

Dr. G. Gore Gillon

The death is reported from England of Dr. G. Gore Gillon, a distinguished New Zealand surgeon, at the age of 83 Dr. Gillon was the first hospital surgeon in Wellington in the days when the hospital was in Pipitea Street and the nurses were men. He assisted in the removal of the patients when the new hospital was built on its present site. More than 50 years ago, when the Manawatu Railway Company was carrying out the construction on wlrat is now the Main Trunk line, Dr. Gillon had to go hurriedly to Fukerua Bay to tend men entombed iu a tunnel collapse. He improvised means of keeping them alive by letting down on a string sponges soaked iu brandy. Dr. Gillon started a convalescent home in Oriental Bay, and it is still being carried on.

The latter part of his life, till a few years ago, was spent in Auckland. His fame as a surgeon extended beyond New Zealand, and the’ British Medical Journal has recorded a number of his most brilliant operations. In the Great War his reputation as a surgeon was much enhanced. He was a well-known racing man in his younger days and a footballer, and was a keen member of the Hunt Club which years ago held its meetings on the Crawford Estate, Miramar. He was also a Mason and officer-surgeon iu the Naval Reserve. When he retired from practice in Auckland some years ago he went to England. Mr. W. A. Campbell, Napier A well-known Napier resident, Mr. William Alexander Campbell, has died, states a “Dominion” Special Service message. He was born in Napier and spent the greater part of his life there. For many years he was associated with the firm of Magill and Campbell, Ltd. There are two sisters, Mrs. J. B. D. Allen, Auckland, and Mrs. M. J. StarkLawrie, Napier, and three brothers, Mr. H. Campbell, Napier, Mr. J. Campbell, Greenmeadows, and Mr. IL Campbell, Fcilding. Sister M. O. Galbraith, Napier The death has occurred in Napier of Sister M. O. Galbraith, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. IV. Galbraith, Woodville, states a “Dominion” Special Service message. Born in Scotland, Miss Galbraith came to Australia with her parents and eventually to New Zealand, where her education was completed and where she commenced her nursing career. Completing her training at the Auckland Hospital, she took up private nursing in Auckland, Palmerston North, Christchurch and Timarn. and after varying periods in these towns she took over the Whara White private hospital, Dannevirke. Going to Napier later in 1933, she opened the Laugside Private Hospital. This institution is named after her Scottish home. She leaves three sisters and two brothers. Mr. William Norris ~Mr. William Norris, a marine engineer, employed by the Union Steam Ship Company from 1907 to 1922, died in Auckland recently after a long illness. He was born in Charleston, on the West Coast, in 1881, and joined the old Waimarino as fifth engineer in Westport in 1907. He was second engineer of the Wingatui when he retired. Among the other vessels in riffiich he servA were the Talune and ' the old WauaJ£« He was unmarried.