OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21386, 14 July 1931, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR THOMAS N. BRODRICK (Special to Dailv Times.) INVERCARGILL, July 13. The death occurred at Christchurch on Sunday of Mr Thomas Noel Brodrick, 0.8. E., 1.5.0., who was until his retirement in 1922 Under-secretary of Lands. Mr Brodrick, who was born in London in 1855, came to New Zealand with his parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Brodrick, in 1860, in the ship Nimrod. He was educated privately at Invercar-, gill, and for a time was in the employment of Mr J» H. Gibbs, of Messrs Cargill, Gibbs and Company, merchants, Dunedin. Subsequently he received a cadetship in the Survey Department under the Hon. G. F. Richardson, and was licensed to practise as a surveyor in 187-7. Mr Brodrick then joined the Government Survey Department, and was one of the first of the original staff who went to Canterbury. On the reorganisation of the department by the late Mr J. T. Thompson, in 1887, he was appointed district surveyor in South Canterbury, and for a long period he lived at Timaru. While in Canterbury Mr Brodrick carried out many mountain surveys, including the. discovery and mapping of a new route to the West Coast from Lake Ohau to Paringa and the mapping of the Tasman, Mueller, Hooker, Murchison, Classen, Godley and Richardson Glaciers and the surrounding country. In May, 1909, he was promoted to be commissioner of Crown lands- and chief surveyor for Hawke’s Bay, and in August, 1910, he was transferred to a similar position in the Canterbury land district. Two years later* he was transferred to the Wellington district and in 1915 was appointed Under-secretary of the Department. In recognition of his work Mr Brodrick was awarded the Order of the British Empire, and in 1920 he was made a member of the Imperial Service Order. Mr Brodrick was predeceased by his wife, Mrs Helen Brodrick, who died in January, 1930. He is survived by two sons and one daughter, and also by his brothers, Messrs R. H. Brodrick and C. J. Brodrick, of Invercargill. Another daughter passed away recently in the North Island.