OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21273, 29 August 1932, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR. D. 0. POLSON The death has occurred of Mr. Dennis Oliver Poison, of Ponsonby, who was well known in athletic circles, at the age of 44 years. Mr. Poison was a vicepresident of the Victoria Cruising Club and for a number of years was secretary of the Ponsonby United League Football Club. He was honorary secretary of the Ponsonby Social Club from the time of its inception over 12 years ago, and three years ago was made a life member in recognition of his services. He was a keen worker in Auckland West for the Labour Party. Mr. Poison spent three years on active service during the Great War. MR. ARCHIBALD DON The death occurred in Auckland on Saturday of Mr. Archibald Rae Don, well known in musical circles in several parts of New Zealand, and formerly station director and announcer at IZR. Mr. Don was born in Dunedin in 1882, and as a boy was the youngest member of the Kaikorai Brass Band. At the age of 14 he was leader of a drum and fife band, and throughout his subsequent career wa-s leader of bands and orchestras and well known as an organist. For 10 years in the Gisborne district he was conductor of the Gisbprne Band and deputy-conductor of the Gisborne Orchestral and Operatic Societies. For the following 10 years he conducted four musical societies in Hastings and acted as church choirmaster. He composed and conducted a Maori opera, Marama. Tn Auckland he was conductor of the Savage Club Orchestra and choirmaster at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Remuera. He is survived by Mrs. Don. MR. F. W. RUTHERFURD The death occurred on Friday at his residence in Epsom of Mr. Francis Walter Rutherfurd, aged 74. The fourth son of Colonel Henry Rutherfurd, Royal Bengal Horse Artillery, he was born in London in 1857 and in 1866 came to NewZealand with his parents in the ship Warrior Queen, settling in Dunedin. Later the family engaged in sheepfarming in Otago and the Wairarapa. Mr. Rutherfurd completed his education under Bishop Ruter in Nelson. For a. time he was in partnership with (he late Mr. William Simcox in the Forest, Lakes property, Otaki. In 1891 he married Miss Eleanor Gertrude Galwey. daughter of the late Mr. William Gaywey, and for 20 years was associated with Mr. W. N. Nelson and Mr. W. H. Milhvard in the pioneering of the frozen meat trade in New Zealand. He retired to his sheep farm in the Auckland district, in 1913, but for the last five years he lived in Auckland. He leaves a widow, two sons, Messrs. F. I. and Gordon Rutherfurd, and two daughters, Mrs. H. B. Morton, juu., of Auckland, and Mrs. M. B. Gordon, of Walton.