OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18545, 3 November 1934, Page 2

OBITUARY

Tiie death occurred in Auckland ol Mr lleury Woodeoek, aged S.T, who raiiie in New Zealand In tin l sailing ship Rob Roy nearly 7(1 years ago. 110 was a si a I ion masl er in I lie employ of the Railways Department for sriiii.e years, and latlerly sell led on a farm in the Waipara Flats disi riel. Mrs Mary Heverne, who died ai Auckland a few days ago, aged Dl, was the widow of the late Mr F. E. Severin', a former superintendent of Mount Eden prison. Deceased came to New Zealand with her father, Mr ,1. ,L Robinson, an English solicitor, in 18GB.

The death occurred in September at Johannesburg of Dr. David Vaughan Thomas, a famous Welsh composer, who, as examiner for Trinity College of Music, visited No\y Zealand on three, different occasion:; within recent years, the last occasion being three years ago. ,\t the time of bis death lie was conducting examinations in South Africa.

Mr Thomas Law, who passed awav at Palmerston North recently, was well known in Hawke’s Bay. He came to New Zealand in the ship Douglas in 187;! and settled in Napier, lie served for .To years in the railwav workshops in Napier. Deceased was probably the senior Justice of the Peace at the time of his death. He was a life-long Methodist and a local preached for 70 years.

One of Auckland’s most familiar and respected personalities, Mr William Rattray, for (he past P.D years honorary secretary of the Auckland centre of the St. John Ambulance Association, died at his home on Wednesday, aged 82 years. lie had been in failing health for some time. It was announced that Mr Rattray had bequeathed one-fifth of his estate to the St. John Ambulance Association and another one-fifth io the New Zealand Mission Trust ‘Board of the Anglican fliureh.

A member of one of I.lk* pioneering families of T’e Puke district, and a daughter of the laic lion. \V. Kelly, who formerly represented this electorale in the House of RopreSeutat ivc.s, lias passed away in the person of Miss Elizabeth Kelly. .Miss Kelly was at one time a teacher under the Auckland Education Board, being in charge of the Makelii School wlicn she ret ired. Sim e then site bad lived at the family hnineslcad nil the Mukctu road. Sin- bad been in ill health for some time. The funeral tn.d, place at. Pnrewa cemetery, Auckland. Tributes to Mr. Alexander Archibald M’Konzie. h!!. who died at Haweia re cenl.ly alter a long illness. ' were paid by a large number when the funeral was held al Ifawera. Dairymen from all [i.-uts ol the island, togetlier with dairy factory managers from Mimawatii. and all |hiid s of Taranaki were (irisent. Mr. M’Kenzie. who had been inst ruetni supervisor to the Dairy Division of the Depnrtinent of Agriculture for the \< i tlt Island for the last- four years was one of the best known figures in the division and was :i keen and popular officer. For more than 40 years lie was connected with the dairy industry. As factory mane err, he worked for Kaiipnknimi and Gisborne companies and lie was choose dairy instructor in the Manawatn district- before being appointed to South Taranaki eight years ago. While stationed at Unworn,' be was made chief dairy instructor for the North Island. He is survived by Mrs. M’Kenzie and two sous, Messrs. T). M'Kenzie (Tfaelihi) and ( ’. McKenzie (Palme.rston North).