OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22134, 12 December 1933, Page 9

OBITUARY

MR ROBERT GALBRAITH (Special to Daily Times.) i INVERCARGILL, December 11. News of tie death of Mr Robert Galbraith at Stratford, which was received in Invercargill to-day, occasioned deep sorrow. It was in Rugby football circles that Mr Galbraith was best known, and his name is perpetuated by the Galbraith Shield, the senior Rugby trophy in Invercargill. Born in Glasgow in 1859, Mr Galbraith, came to Ne>v Zealand when five years old. He was a foundation member of the Invercargill ("Blues”) Club, captain of the Southland representative team in 1888, president of his club, and was also the first vice-president of the Pirates Club. For many years prior to 1909 he was secretary of the Southland Rugby Union, and in that year filled the office of president. He took a prominent part in the purchase of the old Lindisfarne ground and later of Rugby Park. For some years he was a Southland selector, and in 1911 was elected president of the New Zealand Rugby Union. He left Invercargill in 1915 for Ashburton, and had' not been resident there very long before he was elected a member of the Borough Council and then Mayor. He held the latter office for nine or ten years in succession, and was also chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board for two or three terms. It is about three years since Mr Galbraith left Ashburton for Stratford, where he entered business and was residing at the time of his death.

MR T. D. KINGSLAND The death occurred at Invercargill on Friday pf Mr Thomas Daniel Kingsland, •who for more than half a century was prominent in the commercial and sporting life of the community. Seventy-one years ago he was born in a tent on the Bendigo diggings, where his father, Mr John Kingsland, was striving to reap a golden harvest. Six months later the parents decided to leave for New Zealand and with their little eon and his two older brothers they crossed the Tasman and settled in Invercargill, where Mr John Kingsland opened a tannery, later extending this to a fellmongery. Mr Kingsland’s early education wap received successively at four private schools, and after leaving school he joined his father in the fellmongery business, which he subsequently took over to form with his brother James and Mr James Anderson the well-known firm of Kingsland Brothers and Anderson. Some years later Mr James Kingsland retired owing to ill-health and settled in Melbourne, and after a further period Mr Anderson retired. Mr Kingsland then took his son Frank and Mr Andrew Wilson into partnership, the firm continuing under the old name. About ten years ago Mr Kingsland retired from the business, but latterly*. he has been managing director of the Southland Tanneries. Though keenly interested in civic affairs he did not seek office on public bodies. He served, however, for many years as chairman of the Waikiwi School Committee and was one of those largely responsible for the establishment of a school at Waikiwi. He was also chairman for a long period of the Waikiwi Hall Committee and was at_ the time of his death president of the Riverton Rocks Association. He was also a member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. Mr Kingsland’s jovial nature, his fine sportsmanship, his vivacity and his gifts as a raconteur made him as widely popular as he was highly respected, while in business his integrity and honesty of purpose were universally admired. He is survived by his widow, one son, and two daughters. SIR WILLIAM PRENTICE (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CALCUTTA, December 11. (Received Dec. 12, at 1.30 a.m.) The death is announced of Sir William Prentice, home member of the Government of Bengal. He was one of the most criticised officials owing to his alleged weakness in handling the terrorist situation.