OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 8

OBITUARY

MRS. FRANK DYER,

■ Mrs. Phoebe Alicia Dyer, widow of Mr. Frank Dyer, and second daughter of the late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, New Zealand's famous Prime Minister, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at her residence in Tinakori Road. Mrs. Dyer was born on the West Coast, and came to reside in Wellington when the family moved to the capital in 1893. She was known as a woman of singular charm of manner. She had a talent for organisation, and

during the regime of the Liberal Party, of which her father was the head, she was of valuable assistance to it. On one occasion she undertook organisation work in the Wairarapa district with particular success. During the period in which her husband was Consul for Greece in New Zealand the sympathetic assistance she gave in certain directions endeared her to the Greek residents of the city, who neld her in the highest regard. She was an earnest worker in the last Great War. , Mrs. Dyer leaves one daughter, Mrs. Alexander Mclntosh, Bombay. Mesdames W. S. Bean (Christchurch), C. G. F. Morice, Frank Hay, E. M. Gilmer (Wellington), and R. Seddon-Woods (Folkestone, England) are her sisters, and Mr. T. E. Y. Seddon, of Wellington, the Greek Consul-General in Weljlington, is a brother.