OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21315, 17 October 1932, Page 12

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN S. NICOLSON COMMANDER OF TROOPSHIPS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Saturday Tbe death is announced of Captain Samuel Nicolson, formerly in the service of thb Union Steam Ship Company and commander of the steamer Waitemata during the greater part of the war period. Captain Nicolson was over 20 years in the Union Company's service, and during that period ho was in command of a number of coastal steamers. He was also in the company's transpacific steamers, and during the war ho was in command of troopships. lie retired from tlie sea over five years ago. MR. CHARLES W. SHERWOOD A link with the past was severed hy the death at New Brighton, Christchurch, last week, of Mr. Charles William Sherwood, at the age of 84 years. Mr. Sherwood, who was known in Wellington, was on the domestic staff of Sir James Fergusson, when he was Governor of South Australia, and came to New Zealand with him when ho was appointed Governor of New Zealand in Juno, 1873. On account of that connection he knew Sir Charles Fergusson, Sir James' son, very well, when he was a boy, and it was Mr. Sherwood who acted as his first riding master in Adelaide. In the course of Sir Charles Fergusson's term of oflice as GovernorGeneral in New .Zealand, he met Mr. Sherwood in Wellington, and the two had a long conversation over the old days. Mr. Sherwood remained in New Zealand, entering the Railway Department, in which service he remained for 33 y^arsMR. C. H. F. MACPHERSON By the death of Mj. Charles Henry Fergusson Macpherson, which took place in Wellington last Thursday after a long illness, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has lost one of its most valued and esteemed officers. Mr. Macpherson, who was in his 58th year, was inspector for the company. He was a direct descendant of one of the oldest branches of the great Scottish Clan Chattan, believed to be descended from the German Catti (Cattanichs), whose possessions formed what are now the counties of Sutherland and Caithness. His father was the lato Mr. James Drummond Macpherson, a Canterbury early settler, and he was a nephew of the late Mr. Malcolm Macpherson, chief inspector of the Loan and Mercantile Company from 1904 to 1907. Mr. Macpherson was born at Lyttelton and educated at the Christchurch Boys' High School. While at school he was noted for his prowess as a runner, and, was also a chorister of the Christchurch Cathedral. After being in the service of the South British Insurance Company, Mr. Macpherson went to Queensland, but finding the climate unsuited to him returned to New Zealand and joined the Loan and Mercantile Company at Pahnerston North in 1900. At that branch he rose from a junior clerkship to the position of accountant. Later he was successively agent for the company at Dannevirke, accountant in Christchurch, and manager at Hawera, the latter ' promotion being achieved in 1918. In 1921 he was transferred to the head office in Wellington, and in the following year he was appointed inspector, the position he held at the time of his death. His wife survives him.