OBITUARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 June 1912, Page 4

OBITUARY.

SIR JOHN LOGAN CAMPBELL

BI TELEGRAPH—PKESS AHSOCI.ATIO*.

AUCKLAND, June 22. Sir John Logan Campbell, the ''Father of Auckland," died peacefully in his sleep this morning, aged 95. [Sir John trogan Campbell was one of the best-known men in the Southern Hemisphere. He was born in Edinburgh in November, 1817, and was a scion of an old baronial family, the Campbells of Aberuchill and Kilbryde, in Perthshire. He took his degree as M.D. at Edinburgh University, and also gained his diploma as surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. Almost immediately afterwards he sailed for Australia, where he arrived in 1839. Early in the following year he reached New Zealand, and landed at Coromandel. He was in Auckland, when Captain Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand, landed there, and ever since he has been continuously and prominently connected with the commerce and public life of the country. When he was Superintendent of Auckland he promoted the establishment of a volunteer corps, two years before the British War Office took up the scheme. While in Parliament he became a member of the Stafford Ministry. Latterly he has been known best to the general public for his gift and endowment of Cornwall Park, which was formally opened for all the people of New Zealand by King George V., when he and the Queen were here as Duke and Duchess of Cornwall. It was then that bir John was created a Knight Bachelor He and Lady Campbell have since built and endowed kindergarten schools :n Auckland. "Poenamo," a book written by Sir John, is marked by much literary skill, and is invaluable as' a picture of- Maori life before it became atteeted by intimate contact with Europeans, not always of the best stamp Sir John married the eldest daughter of Sir John Cracrott Wilson, who served with distinction in India during the Mutiny and afterwards settled in Canterbury *>ir John Logan Campbell himself will ever remain one of the most interesting, amiable, and picturesque figures in the early history of New Zealand