THE LATE MR FRANK THOMSON

Evening Star, Issue 21904, 15 December 1934, Page 12

THE LATE MR FRANK THOMSON

SIR FABIAN WARE'S TRIBUTE Sir Fabian Ware, vice-obairman of tlie Imperial War Graves Commission, who arrived in Dunedin yesterday, was much shocked to hear of the death of Mr Frank Thomson, permanent head of the Prime Minister’s Department. Sir Fabian first met Mr Thomson in 1902 in Pretoria when ho was private secretary to Mr Richard Seddon, who was visiting South Africa after the Boer War. Sir Fabian and' Lady Ware were entertaining I ', the Seddon family while Mr Seddon was calling on Lord Kitchener. “In the Mother Country and in all the dominions of the Empire,” said Sir Fabian, “there are many friends who will hear of Mr Thomson’s death with genuine distress. Expecting no public recognition, and, indeed, shunning it, he was the perfect Civil servant, hut those in any part of the British Empire who were working for the common good knew him, and he was always prepared to support by all means in his power any project upon which they might be engaged. He was a courteous gentleman and a good friend.”