OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22518, 12 March 1935, Page 9

OBITUARY

MR W. A. KILGOUR

The news of the death of Mr W. A. Kilgour, which took place at the Auckland Hospital on March 4, will be received with great regret by those who knew this wonderfully popular footballer and cricketer of some 30 years ago. Mr Kilgour, who was commonly known as '• Little Billy," was probably the smallest man who ever represented Otago on the cricket and Association football fields. He played the Association game

with the Northern Club, and cricket with the Opoho Club, and he also played halfback for the Union Club in the Rugby code, and, as stated, represented Otago at cricket and Association football. He was recognised as a very clever footballer and a splendid field at cricket, in which game he sometimes took the position of wicketkeeper. Mr Kilgour was for many years employed in the firm of Messrs Callan and Gallaway, and subsequently he went to the North Island and took up grape growing at Grange road, Henderson, Auckland.

MISS JESSIE GRANT The death occurred last Tuesday at " Skibo," Glenledi, of Miss Jessie Grant, a member of one of the pioneer families of Otago. Miss Grant was 81 years of age, and was born at Renton, in the historic Vale of Leven, Scotland, on April 30, 1853. Less than 18 months later her parents emigrated to Victoria in the Deny Castle, the journey occupying four months. This vessel was afterwards wrecked at the Auckland Islands. Five years later Mr and Mrs Grant and their two young children emigrated from Victoria to New Zealand in the schooner Ewald, which arrived at Port Chalmers in December, 1859. Miss Grant's schooldays were spent at Portobello and Port Chalmers. In due course she entered the Normal School at Dimevin, three months after that institution was originally opened, with the late Mr William Fitzgerald as its first principal. In 1870 Miss Grant was appointed sole teacher at Glenledi, when the late Messrs Wayne and Leary held the "Glenledi Station." In those days the teaching was conducted in an old gray cottage, but a spacious schoolroom, with residence attached, was built in 1881. After nine years' teaching at Glenledi, Miss Grant removed to the Hillgrove School, but, owing to her mother's health breaking down, she relinquished the teaching profession, and for 30 years devoted herself to nursing her mother.