OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21774, 13 October 1932, Page 9

OBITUARY

SIR HERBERT NIELD LONDON, October 11. The death is announced of Sir Herbert Nield. Sir Herbert Nield had been Recorder of York since 1917.. From 1906 to 1918 he was member of Parliament (Conservative) for Ealing. He was actively identified with various Conservative associations. He was 70 years of age. MR W. D. B. MURRAY The death occurred in a Palmerston North private hospital of Mr William David Brown Murray, of Chaytor street, Palmerston North, at the age of 88 years. Mr Murray served his cadetship in the survey office of Messrs James Young and Son, Perth, and, after serving as an engineer with a Glasgow firm, came to the Dominion in 1863. He received an appointment as assistant engineer in the road engineer’s department, Otago, but resigned from this appointment to become a surveyor and attorney in Invercargill for the late Surveyor-general, Mr I. T. Thomson, who i held a large holding of unsurveyed land. Towards the end of the sixties all the staff surveyors were paid by the Provincial Government, which'was in a state of bankruptcy, and Mr Murray then took up mining and later a cattle'’’venture which proved to be a failure. In 1874 ho received an appointment on the Otago survey staff, and continued in the service until he was superannuated in 1909. Before being superannuated he was chief draughtsman in Nelson for three years, acted as chief surveyor and commissioner for eight months, and held the position of chief draughtsman in the head office of the department in Wellington. COMMISSIONER HODDER The deatli occurred at Los Angeles on September 28 of Commissioner H. C. l Hodder, 0.8. E., who was in charge of Salvation Army Work in New Zealand from 1914 to 1922. He had been living in retirement for about six years owing to ill-health. Commissioner Hodder was responsible for notable work in New Zealand at the head of Salvation Army activities during the period of the war and repatriation. He organised the Salvation Army Lnstitutes, in the New Zealand military, in the Dominion and in England, Egypt, and France, and in many ways was personally responsible for the provisiori of comforts for the troops. At the close of the war lie received the Order of the British Empire. After"* leaving" New Zealand in 1922, Commissioner Hodder took charge of the Salvation Army work in Canada, but a breakdown in health necessitated his retirement. He is survived by his wife and six children, all of whom live in the United States, with the exception of one daughter, Mrs H. N. Toomer, of Nelson. 1

MR L. B. R. YOUNG Following an illness of nearly three months. Mr Leonard B. R. Young, a member of the National Bank staff in Wellington/ died on Saturday evening at a private hospital. Born in Dunedin in- 1892, Mr Young was educated- at the Union Street School, Dunedin, and the Otago Boys’ High School, After a short period with Messrs Adams Bros., solicitors, Dunedin, he joined the sendee of the National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd., at its North Dunedin branch, on April 26, 1909, and later was transferred to Dunedin, Mosgiel, and Wellington branches in turn, being attached to the general manager’s office in April, 1921. During the last three years Mr Young visited many of the branches throughout New Zealand on audit work, and his passing will be sadly felt by very many officers of the bank and the friends he made during his career, Mr Young passed his accountancy examination in 1916. He served with the Expeditionary Force, during 1917 and 1918,