OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 23620, 5 July 1940, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR WILLIAM HAGERS ® _____ fPE* Uhitkd Press Association.] IpjLSON, July 4. The death has occurred of Mr William Rogers, managing director of the Anchor-. Shipping and foundry Company, aged 79. His 65 years’ asspciation with shipping commenced in 1875, when'the. joined the firm of Messrs ,N. Edwards and C 0.,, whose steam packets, trading under the name of the Anchor Line, were well known in the New Zealand coastal trade. Graduating from clerk to purser in .1882, Mr Rogers hecame shipping manager of the Anchor Steam Ship Company, and when the Anchor Shipping ‘ and, Foundry Company was incorporated in. 1901 he took over the general managership,’a' position which he held till 1936, when ho was appointed managing director'. He was also a director of Messrs Griffin and Sons, the Nelson Tobacco Company, and was chairman of the New Zealand Shipowners’ Federation;, last year. ' MR JOHN M'NATTY After spending 80 years in New Zealand —70, of them in Invercargill and the balance in Dunedin—Mr John M'Natty died here yesterday in his ninetieth year. He arrived in Invercargill as a child with his parents, the family coming from Girvan, Scotland. His father, who died within three months of his one hundredth birthday, established his first home in New Zealand in a tent pitched on the site where St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church now stands. , Mr John M'Natty was well known throughout Southland and Central Otago as the country representative of Messrs John Kingsland and Co., boot manufacturers, and was associated ■with that firm for 35 years. As a yo.ung man he was keenly interested in amateur theatrical activities, in which he was conspicuously successful, occasionally visiting Dunedin with companies formed in Invercargill. He had a notable record as a member of the Southland Bowling Club, and joined the Ddnedin, Bowling Club when-he came to reside in this city about 10 years ago. He had a family of 10 children, six of whorii-survive him. Four of his sons served in the Great War, and two of them (Sergeant P. A. M‘Natty and Private Henry M'Natty) were killed in action. The surviving members of the family are Mr James M‘Natty (Invercargill), Mrs Bonifant (Lower Hutt), Mr T. F. M‘Natty (Dunedin). Mr F. K. M‘Natty (Rotorua) Mr C. B. M'Natty (Cambridge), and Mrs Dalton (Georgetown, Invercargill). MR W. H. GUTHRIE-SMITH [psa United Press Association.] NAPIER Jnly 5. The death has occurred of Mr William Herbert Guthrie-Smith, station owner and author. Much interested in natural history, he wrote ‘ Birds of Water, Wood, and Waste,’ ‘ Muttonbirds and Other Birds,’ • etc.; also a drama, ‘ Crispus.’