OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24525, 6 February 1941, Page 8

OBITUARY

.■‘•BANJO ” PATERSON SYDNEY, Feb. 5. (Received Feb. 5. at 11-30 pin.) The death has occurred of Mr Andrew Barton Paterson, familiarly known as “Banjo” Paterson, whose poems and ballads of Australian bush HfedSave made his name a household word throughout the Commonwealth. He was-70 years of age. , Mr A. B. Paterson was a son of Mr Andrew Boyle Paterson, a grazier and he was at Narramba (New South Wales).Wad admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme-Court, and practised law until &00.-when he went ,to South Africa iA ! of the. Sydney Motninj? Herald and the Argus, and he on the staff of .Reuters Agency.^aubreauently he actedas cotrespondent ifa tne Pnilippiftes for the Sydney Morning Herald during the Spanisn-American War, as correspondent in China for the same paper during the Boxer Rebellion, and in a similar capacity at the beginning or the last World War. He was an ambulance driver attached to the Australian Hospital at Boulogne during 1914-15, Joined the Australian Remount Service as second-lieutenant ■in 1915, serving in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the war. when he had attained the rank of major. MRS MARGARET CHRISTIE .The death occurred at Warepa on January 20 of Mrs Margaret Christie, at the age of 80 years. Mrs Christie, who was widely known nd respected, was born at Swansea, South Wales, and was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Allen. Mr Allen spent the latter years of his life at Warepa, where he carried c~ his trade of bootmaking. When Mrs Christie was only f6ur years Of age the family sailed for Dunedin in the Derwent Water, and, for some years lived at Waikaia, where Mr Allen followed the occupation of a miner, eventually going to Caversham. Miss Allen was married to Mr John Christie, and the couple settled at Warepa, their first home, “ Kelthmore,” , being set in a field of corn. Mrs Christie remained there until hep death. Of a quiejk and unassuming disposition, she took no part m public life; her time being occupie with the many duties of a busy housewife on « farm. She was keenly interested in the activities of the district and was a well-loved figure in her own home. She enjoyed good health up till the time of her sudden illness and death, which came as a shock to everyone. Her husband predeceased her two years ago, and she is survived by a family of four daughters and three sons.