OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19029, 1 June 1936, Page 3

OBITUARY

JTR. ('. M. SMTTTt-TinziMT? The dentil has occurred in Auckland of Dr. t'. 11. Smith-liozier, aged 85. tie was widely known in the cany days of Gisborne and the North of Auckland. Jn the seventies he qualified in Dublin and was appointed as house surgeon at Inverness Inliniwry, Scotland. After serving as ship's sWgeon, sailing between Liverpool and New York, he .settled in Soulhpoit, and interested himself in military affairs. He then raised a company of volunteers, which al once became known as Dr. Smith's "Bulldogs." He married the youngest daughter of Mr. David Kendiick, Mayor of Wolverhamplou. Subsequently deceased sought to make his fortune in the Kloiulyke, hut his venture did not prove n success. Afterward he went hi Vienna and took a post graduate ionise ill bis profession. He practised his profession ill several centres in Australia, and then came In New Zealand and fdlhuvnl hi? profession in I .'ishoriie. Lah-r deceased lived in Tasmania. Visiting Melbourne al the outbreak of Die war. and find, ing a shortage of medical men. Dr. Siiiith-110/ier al once, although at the age of 63, offered his services. He was then appoiided medical ollicer in charge of the Nestor, carrying troops to Fgvpl, and afterward served on other 'transports. fn 1919 he was medical officer on the ship taking prisoners of war home, lie then returned to Tasmania, and following the death of his wife two yens ago. he returned to Auckland.

The death of Mrs. Phyllis Bradford in her eighty-sixth year marks the severance of a further link with the early days of llawke's Bay. Mis. Bradford. whose death occurred in Bastings recently, was horn in Ksse.v, Fngiutid, and arrived al Napier bv the sailing vessel Queen of the South'in 1874 with her husband, Mr. ('. Wilson, and one child. After living some years in Taradale. they look up land near Woodvillc Shortlv after this Mr. Wilsoa was accidentally killed. 'Mrs. Wilson later married Mr. Charles Bradford, who predeceased her some years ago.