OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22958, 13 August 1936, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR ANDREW M'GILL Mr Andrew who died last Saturday night while on a visit to Wellington, was a well-known resident of Dunedin, where he was born in 1868. He was a son of Mr James M'Gill, who arrived in Dunedin in 1861 in the Robert Henderson, and founded the building firm of James M'Gill and Sons. Mr Andrew M'Gill was educated at Halliwell’s private school and at the Moray Place Normal School, and he then joined the firm of his father, of which he was a member at the time of his death. He was one of the founders of the Zingari-Rich-mond Football Club, and also played cricket in his younger days. Mr M'Gill was a member of the committee of the old Normal School and chairman for a period. He was a deacon of the Moray Place Congregational Church, and a member of the Early Settlei’s’ Association. He was a great lover of Bracken’s poems, and could recite them with fine effect. He was of a very kindly nature, and will be held in affectionate remembrance by his many friends. Mr M'Gill was married in 1896 to Miss Mary Fairlie Bell, who predeceased him. He leaves a family of two —Mr James B. M'Gill, of Hyde, and Mrs Howard Grant, of Karori, Wellington. His brothers are Mr James M'Gill (Dunedin) and Mr D. W. M'Gill (Christchurch), and a sister, Mrs C. W. Hay, resides in Nelson. THE REV. J. 0. MICHELSEN Advice has been x’eceived in Dunedin of the death in Auckland yesterday of the Rev. Johann Oscar Michelsen, aged 91, one of the pioneer missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in the New Hebrides. Mr Michelsen was a native of Norway, and came to New Zealand when he was a young man. After conducting a business on the West Coast for a period, he came to Otago and for a number of years he was engaged as a colporteur throughout the province. During this period he was a frequent visitor to the goldfields in Central Otago. He eventually decided to undertake missionary work, and, after studying under Dr William Salmond, the first professor of theology at the Theological Hall, he left for the New Hebrides in 1878. Hbr a year / he was working with the Rev. Peter Milne, the first missionary at Nguna, and then he transferred to Tongoa, which was then in quite a heathen state. His whole missionary activity was performed in that district until he retired about 10 years ago. He returned to Dunedin, but climatic conditions were unsuitable, and he removed to Auckland, where he had since lived. A few weeks ago he paid a brief visit to Dunedin on business, but since his return to the north he had not been in good health.