OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 2

OBITUARY

MB. THOS. D. KEANE Mr. Thomas Daniel Keane, whose death as the result of a railway accident at Featheiston yesterday was reported in' last night’s issue, was _ a ' brother of-the late Cook County engineer, .Mr. J. Keane. Ho was lor two or three years in the Gisborne district prior, to his recent transfer to the re-lay gang at Wellington, and, during that ’ time was ganger at Matnwai on permanent way maintenance. He was a particularly’ fine stamp of railwayman, and was extremely popular among the settler-; of tho areas tapped by tho Gisborne railway section. The announcement of his untimely death has caused much regret among his many friends here, amt deep sympathy has been extended'to his relatives. Mr. Isaac John Salmon, who was bailiff at Feilding for many years, died in Palmerston North on Saturday, at the ago of SO years. The Into Mr. Salmon was one of the most prominent cricketers in Now Zealand in the 70s and 80’s. Mists Helen Lyster Xifol, who died last week at her residence in Dunedin, will he remembered as an eager and prominent worker in the interests of women, being one of the earliest members of the W.C.T.U. and secretary of that body,,gist) active in the temperance movement, and secretary of the Women’s Franchise League in Dunedin before and at the critical time when .Sir John Hall was fathering the Dill in the House of .Representatives.