OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26558, 5 September 1947, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR FREDERICK TRAILL Daily Times Special Service. INVERCARGILL, Sept. 4. The death occurred yesterday at the age of 67 years of Mr Frederick Henry Wohlers Traill, who was a grandson of the Rev. J. F. H. Wohlers, a representative 'of the North .German Missionary Society. Mr Wohlers established a mission station on Ruapuke Island in 1844. Born at the Neck, Stewart Island, Mr Traill was a son of Mr Arthur William Traill a well-known school teacher in the early days in Southland. Mr Traill was an insurance and land agent in Gisborne for a number of years before he became proprietor of the Woodslea boarding house at Stewart Island. In recent years he had lived in retirement at the Island. Mr Traill acquired an intimate knowledge of the island. He made an intensive study of wild life and was well known to tourists. He was one of the first to realise the possibilities of the paua shell jewellery, and he made many trips to A he west coast of the island in search of the shell. He wrote extensively for newspapers and periodicals on wild life in the South Island and at the time of his death was compiling a record of early shipwrecks round the coast of Stewart Island. Mr Traill was related to Mr Wohlers through his mother, a daughter of the missionary. Contact with Stewart Island by the missionary was that of visiting pastor. He died in 1885 at the island, and his grave stands on the slopes of Ringa Ringa Point lookin? across the expanse of Paterson Inlet to the Neck. Mr Trail] is survived by a daughter, Mrs C. Corbet, of Dunedin, and two brothers, Messrs A. W. Traill and R. Traill, of Stewart Island.

MR E. G. FALCONER

Mr Ernest Gordon Falconer died suddenly on Wednesday. He had been deputy commissioner of stamps and assistant registrar of companies in Dunedin since November, 1937, following his transfer from Wellington. Mr Falconer, who was aged 54, had been in the Public Service for nearly 40 years. He was a keen bowler and was secretary of the Anderson’s Bay Bowling Club. He is survived by his wife and four children.

ARCHDEACON PETRIE

P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 3. The death has occurred of the Venerable Archdeacon Alan Julian Petrie, vicar of St. Mary’s Church, Merivale, aged 59. Archdeacon Petrie, who was born at Naseby, was educated at the Greymouth District High School. He attended Selwyn College and was ordained as a deacon in 1912, and as a priest a year later. He was priest-in-charge m the Owaka district from 1912 to 1914, and assistant curate at St. Matthew’s in Dunedin between 1914 and 1917. For the last two years of the First World War he was a chaplain with the forces.