BIRTHS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 47

BIRTHS.

ADAM.—On January 25, 1927, at Nurse M'Kewen's, 5 Princes street, Musselburgh, Dunedin, to Mr and Mrs J. J. Adam, Green Island Bush—a daughter. BENFELL. —On January 23, at Nurse Boss's (“La Rochelle”), to Mr and Mrs G.' C. Benfell —a daughter. BRABANT. —On January 31, 1927, to Mr and Mrs Baring Brabant, 32 Norfolk street, St. Clair—a son. CAMERON. —On January 16, at Nurse Leeden’s (“ Quendon ”), Musselburgh, to Mr and Mrs A. Cameron, Esplanade, St. Clair—a son. ELLIS. —To Mr and Mrs Norman Ellis, at Nurse Ross’s (“ La Rochelle") —a son. ELLIOTT. —On January 25, at Louisa Roberts Hospital, Middlemarch, to Mr and Mrs T. Elliott—a daughter. ERIKSON. —On January 28, 1927, at Nurses Marryatt and Anderson’s, Milton, to Mr and Mrs H. D. Erikson, Burn street, Milton —a daughter. GRIEVE.—On January 25, at “El Nido ” (Nursez’Cupples’s Hospital), to Mr and Mrs R. H. Grieve, Cargill road —a son. HAUGH.—On January 29, at "Rangimarie,” Oamaru, to Mr and Mrs R. A. Haugh, Willow Farm, Kokoamo —a daughter.

MACDONALD. —On January 28, at “El Nido” (Nurse Cuppies’s Hospital), to Mr and Mrs A. Macdonald, Port Chalmers —a daughter. REID.—On January 29, at “El Nido ” (Nurse Cuppies's), to Mr and Mrs Arthur Reid, “ The Willows,” Woodside —a daughter.

STOOP. —At Queenstown. Lake Wakatipu, on February 3, 1927, to Mr and Mrs Fred Stoop—a daughter. TAMBLYN (nee Feil). —On January 30, the wife of Richard Tamblyn, “ Grafton,” Roxburgh—a son. THORLEY. —On January 26, at Nurses Marryatt and Anderson’s, Milton, to Mr and Mrs G. L. Thorby, Milburn—a son. MARRIAGES. FORSYTH—GEDDES. —On December 15, 1926, at St. Matthew’s Church, Dunedin, by the Rev. W. A. Hamblett, David, elder son of Mr and Mrs C. Forsyth, Table Hill, Milton, to Ethel Winifred, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs S. W. Geddes, Albany street, Dunedin. GRATER — SELLWOOD.—On November 17, 1926, at All Saints’ Church, Dunedin, by the Very Reverend Dean Fitchett, Henry James Selwyn Grater, only son of Mr Charles Grater, of Dunedin, to Hazel Marie, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Sellwood, of Timaru. STALKER — WINNING.—On December 22, 1926, at Mataura, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Margaret and the late Robert Winning, to John Harold, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Stalker, Bluff. SUTHERLAND —KEITH. —On December 24, 1926, at St. Stephen’s Church, by the Rev. J. M. Simpson, 8.A., Norman Robert, youngest son of Mrs and the late J. Sutherland, Forth street, to Mary Ellen, youngest daughter of Mrs and the late D. Keith, Council street, St. Kilda. DEATHS.

BARLOW. —On February 6, at Christchurch, Eric George Barlow, second youngest son of Mrs J. Barlow, 19 Loyalty street, South Dunedin. BECK.—On January 31, at Naseby Hospital, Allan John, dearly beloved son of Charles James and Mary Cristina Beck, of Oturehua; aged 2 years 10 months. CHISHOLM. —On February 2, at Timaru, David, dearly loved husband of Elizabeth Chisholm, and youngest son of the late John Chisholm, of Temuka ; aged 50 years. COLLIE. —On January 30, 1927, at Dunedin, Lucy, the beloved wife of William Collie, 116 Highgate, Roslyn. Deeply mourned. DUNCAN. —On January 13, 1927, at Melbourne, James, beloved husband of Annie Duncan (lately superintendent of Melbourne cable tramways), eldest son of the late George Duncan, one of Otago’s early pioneers (1849),; aged 76 years. FALCONER.—At Dunedin, on January '3O, Alexandra Gwendoline, the dearly be- * loved eldest daughter of Edward T. G. and Lillias M. Falconer, 27 Albert street; aged 20 years. GREER.—On February 5, at her residence, Ranfurly, Jane, widow of P. J. Greer, of “Grieve,” Patearoa : in her eighty-fifth year. KENNY.—On February 6, at Otokia (suddenly), Margaret Russell, wife of James ■ Kenny; in her thirty-ninth year. Deeply mourned. KEN WARD-—At the residence of her daughter (Mrs John Howie), Seacliff, on January 30, Janet Russell, relict of F.,W. Kenward; aged 82 yearn.