OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18685, 15 April 1924, Page 10

OBITUARY.

■ , ■' tm ■ MR. TV SCOTT-BMITH* ■ ■;..''•;-■:';V'-.,:".:";"..; -.v'nV'-:/'■;:'-"' ~>:;' >>"'.' M :.'. [BI : , T©EGEATB. ASSOCIATION.] .V: ■ -"«•. '.- ;;' / BLENHEIM. Monday. ■The death occurred 'at his residence, r: Park Terrace, to-day, ■ * under painfully ; .-: I ■< sudden circumstances, of Mr. ' Thomas -' Scott-Smith, a well-known member of the r local Bar. Mr. ; Scott-Smith-wis the son of a sheepfarmer in Forfarsbjra, Scotland. . He was educated 'at Dundee Academy and Edinburgh University...-" After admission to the ; Bar he went to India and practised some years in . Calcutta, and later at' * Rangoon and Baairo, sin * Burma. ):/ He came to New Zealand in 1884, and was engaged in practice until 1902, wh»n he ■', was appointed stipendiary magistrate|t; at Blenheim. Later he was transferred to,-". Auckland, He resigned from the Bench . I ' about 14 years ago, -.■■ and: resumed, private practice in Blenheim. * J MB. a E. FORDHAM. The death is announced at Wellington of Mr. Charles E. ; Fordham, chairman ' of '". ihe New Zealand Fooftball Association, the news being received in Auckland yes- s> terday by • Mr. ;B. L. Salmon, the' asso- ":) ciation's secretary. "'.' ' " *'= ' i Originally a Rwjby football piayerv Mr. Fornliam, who bad been seriously, ill'for some y. time, transferred his interest :to M Soccer '* about 1892/ giving, splendid ; « service as secretary of "• the Wellington 1 Football Association, and also of the : Be- i;S ferees' Association. For some seasons ;< past he was ,a wise chairman of the N.Z.F.A., his genial disposition gaining '.'} him a wide circle of friends. He was also v, member of the Kelburn Bowling 1 Club, and a' Freemason. -; Mrs. Fordham, :,' two sons and a daughter lament his death ■ ; at 56 years of age.

: ;; ;;iMa.Wv B. BUCKHXJRST. • '".■.:';. [BT TEtEoiiAi'n.—own coßsssroKi>snrr.] - CHKISTCHUECH. Monday."c; ' After *a t brief illness, the death took place "this morning of Mr, William Blyth Buckhurst, who, in 1919, retired on superannuation from, t'he position oil . Crown ■lands i: ranger/ for : Canterbury. Since his retirement' he has acted as > Govermam; valuer under the Discharged Soldiers : Settlement Act. The deceased, who wau born in Canterbury 71 years ago, came> from a family which for many years has been associated with the army and navy. His ' grandfather .was Admiral Stephen Buckhurat,' and" his father Captain William Buckhurst, ; who was killed at the siege of Lucknow, in the Indian Mutiny. After; graduating at an agricultural college in England, the deceased came to New Zealand in 1879, and entered into farming pursuits in Otago. Later he engaged in the timber and kauri _ gum industry as manager' oi ; a business' in Northern Wairos. He also engaged in several commercial enterprises on his own account until *ho entered the Government service ag sessional , ; clerk for the \ House of Representatives. In 1899 he ' was appointed Crown lands ranger for Wairarapa, and subsequently ha held the position of ranger for Marlborough and Canterbury. The late Mr. . Buckhurst was a keen chess-playerj taking part in many interprovincial chess contests. ■ LATE MB, wT HANSON. The funeral of Hthe late Mr. William Hanson, who died on Friday, at,the age of 9i) ', years, I .took place at the Symonqs Street Cemetery. A service -was- held earlier at tha Pitt Street % Methodist Church, where there were prestmt A a great. number of iMr.^!Hanson's 'old friends. The services iat ; the church and graveside were conducted by five ; ministers, the ,Bevs. Dr. Laws, G. Bond, P. N. Knight/ T, G. Carr aod W. S. Potter, During the church, service Mr. Bond, who \ had' known Mr. Hanson ; for 50 years, delivered a fine tribute to his memory. chief,; mourners.were.the deceased'B, sons, Alfred;; and '. Thomas, .while his . widow and - daugh* fter were also" present. The pall-be&reii were four, grandchildren. , .