OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 13

OBITUARY

MR. D. D. CAMERON

Mr. Donald Douglas Cameron, one, of Kaiw'arra's oldest settlers, died yesterday in. his eighty-first year.

The eldest son of .the late Mr. Alexander Cameron, a pioneer settler of Wellington district, who arrived ifi New Zealand in the ship Blenheim in 1840, the late Mr.' Cameron was born at the Waiwetu in 1856. He received his education at Mowbray's School (now the Thprndori Normal School) and at the' Wellington Grammar School (now Wellington College), and commenced work in the merchant business of Mr. Edward Pearce, Willis Street, where he remained until the amalgamation of that business with Levin and Co. For about 38 years after that he was continuously employed with the Wellington Meat Export Company. Since • his retirement a few years ago he has lived at his old home in Kaiwarra.

In his younger days the late Mr. Cameron took a keen interest in military matters and was for many years captain of "the Kaiwarra Rifle Volunteers. For a period he was chairman of the Kaiwarra school committee.

, The late Mr. Cameron is survived by his widow, who was Miss Annie; Storey, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Lewis Storey, and by five children, Miss Mary Cameron, of Hawke's Bay,' and Messrs. John D. Cameron, Ron-; aid Cameron, George Cameron, and' Percival Cameron, all of Wellington; eighteen grandchildren, and one greatgrandchild. Mrs. Captain Camerofi (Dunedin), and' Misses Jessie and Isabella Cameron (Kaiwarra) are sisters, larid Mr.1 John Cameron (Wellington?/, a brother.' One of the deceased's brothers, Mr. Alexander Cameron, was killed in a motor accident at Kaiwarra on March 13

The office of the State Placement Service in Victoria Street, Lower Hutt, was visited by the Director of the State Placement Service for New Zealand (Mr. A. J. Ri'dler) on Tuesday evening, when an address was given to the officers of the Hutt Valley on the aims and ideals' of" the service. .The Hu|.t Valley placement officer (Mr, K. D. Whelan) states that 1604 men have been placed in jobs in the Hutt Valley since the inauguration of the service in May, 1936.