OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18706, 12 May 1924, Page 11

OBITUARY.

1 MR. E. J. CRONIN. ! [BX TELEGRAPH. — COEKE3PONDSNTC ] WHAKATANE. Saturday. Mr. Edward John Cronin, of Auckland, who had been! on a visit to his son, Dr. 1 » Cronin, for the past six .weeks,, died sud- '• denly at the latter's residence yesterday, i at the age of: 62, Tha lata Mr. .Cronin, - . who was a mariner by profession, came to New Zealand in the early 'eighties" 1 and was engaged for many years in seafaring life. Retiring from the sea some 1 ten years ago he took up employment with the Railway Department, at Newmarket, and had been engaged there' up '■■ to the time of his death. Deceased had been in failing health for come time past ! and had been under treatment for heart I trouble. Yesterday he was walking on I the lawn in front of Dr. Cronin's house when he suddenly, collapsed and expired. Mr. Cronin, whose wife died seven years ago, is survived by his son Dr. Cronin, ot' Whakatane, •-.' and a:» daughter, ■ Mrs. Marriott, of Auckland. The funeral takes place at Waikumete. DR. J. M. MASON. . fßy .TELEGBAPH.—OWN _COKEE3PONMN? ) . WELLINGTON. Saturday. Dr. James Malcolm Mason, formerly chief health officer for New Zealand, died at his residence, Lower Hutt. yesterday. Dr. Mason, who had a distinguished university career,' was born at Arbroath, Scotland, in 1865. He was educated at Glasgow, Edinburgh ? i Cambridge, Brussels, and Paris, taking degrees at each university. After practising at ' Ports- : mouth and subsequentlyf. for eight years in Northumberland, he came t to; New Zealand in 1895. While in England he quali- * fied as a barrister : at-law,'! and he was a member of the Honourable ; Society vof Gray's Inn, London. 'In. the profession : to which he chiefly devoted 'himself he was- a Fellow of the Chemical Society,' London. He was examiner in bacteriology and pathology to the New Zealand University ; from 1895 to 1900, and vice-presi- { dent of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1903. In 1900 Dr. Mason was appointed Chief Health Officer for New Zealand, a position which he held until 1909, when the Health and. Hospitals Departments were amalgamated. Dr. Mason then returned to England, but came back some months later and resumed private practice in Wellington. He interested himself in the crusade against tuberculosis, and wherever he lived he took a keen interest in local government. Having Bohemian instincts, he was especially interested in the formation'of the Wellington Savage Club, and was its first :. chairman. :He ■?■ was 1' a surgeon-cap-tain in' the New Zealand : Militia 29 years; ago, and during the last war he served on the hospital ; ship Marama, r with > the : rank of lieutenant-colonel. ' \ ;As an author ; Dr. "Mason wrote 'Counsels, Civil -arid Moral, 3 From-: My Lord : Bacon," ' "The iLast of h the^;Delayals," ; "Tuberculosis Among: Children :in ;'■ New Zealand," ;arid. "Medical Inspection o? Schools in New Zealand." : Dr. Mason leaves : alwidows s,a\ son, : Mr. ■-Malcolm;; Mason, sheepfarmer, of ; Havelock North;: and a daughter, Mrs. Duncan;, wife of Mr •.A. T- .Duncan, ; solicitor, of Wellington.