OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18519, 2 October 1923, Page 8

OBITUARY.

■>\' : MR. C. HEFFORd. An employee of the , New Zeaiaotj Heiixld for the last 20 years,, Mr-'.•■'.•?, Charles Edwin Hefford, died at -a private ,-: hospital on Saturday, at "the age of 53. |; The late Mi;.' Hefford, who vlived, at 43, Murdoch Road, 'Grey Lynn, was formerly . a i farmer at Port Albert, where he was , . well" known and highly - respected. At the time of . his death he' was employed • * as a foreman in the publishing ' depart-~ ment of the Herald. ':■■ He was a:: pro* minent member: of - the Baptist: Taher-' | uacle. Mr.. Hefford, leaves a widow, and ' ; a. family of three. ■ r- ; Xp ".-':'/■; :■: / h^:ff;'4 : ■'",<■£.;. '}..':' ;■';: - : '■?,/ ■'' ■ '. 'v^^iii :/■/ " DR. B. B. DE LATOUR, [BY: TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION. • , " DUNEDIN. Monday. , | The death ig announced of Dr. Bertrand jE.¥de'Liitour, M.R.G.S., aged 73.. ■'. Dr. de Latour was for some time president of the United Temperance Reform : - Council of Dunediiii.' "was born in th& province of Bengal, India, in 1851, and f ,, was the youngest; son of , the ; late Mr. . - ,' Edward■•'deSLato'ir," formerly a judge of . a. the Supreme Court of Calcutta. He was v educated in i England,; matriculated at , Edinburgh University; and 1 finished bis studies at King's • College Hospital, : Lqn- .r v don. Shortly j/tifter gaining his degre of - M.RC.S. Dr. : de Latour commenced to 'practise his profession ). in Yorkshire, and four years later, he came ; to • New ; Zealand. He ' practised for five years, in v Port -■, Chalmers ■■' and then removed • ' to , Clutha- district, where, he. .remained for 14 years. During that long period he was closely associated; with publie life in the district. Dr. de' Latotur commenced practice in Dunedin early in T--190- In .1891' he was ; married to Miss Dollina Forbes, of Duucdin.