LAST TRIBUTES

Southland Times, Issue 22488, 24 January 1935, Page 11

LAST TRIBUTES

FUNERAL OF PROFESSOR MACMILLAN BROWN DIGNIFIED CEREMONY (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, January 22. The last tributes to a man whose name will always live in the annals of university education in New Zealand were paid during a dignified and moving ceremony at the Anderson’s Bay crematorium this afternoon, when the funeral of Professor John Macmillan Brown was conducted in the presence of an attendance representative of the organizations with which he had been so closely allied during his lifetime.

The cortege left the undertaker’s premises at 1.45 p.m. and proceeded to the crematorium, where the Bishop of Dunedin (the Right Rev. W. A. R. Fitchett) conducted an impressive service.

The chief mourners were the deceased’s daughters, Mrs A. M. L. Baxter (Brighton) and Miss Viola Macmillan Brown (Christchurch), who were accompanied to the cemetery by Mrs J. A. Hanan.

The pall-bearers were Mr W. D. Campbell (Timaru), one of the trustees of Professor Macmillan Brown’s estate, and Professors Benham, Malcolm, Gowland, Andrew and Adams. The Otago University Council was represented by Sir Lindo Ferguson, Sir James Allen, Dr. James Fitzgerald, Messrs J. Wallace, J. M. Butler, J. W. Dove, J. Robertson, W. R. Brugh and H. Chapman (University Registrar), and the others also in attendance included Professor White, Dr. C. Hanan, Dr. T. T. Thomson, Messrs Willi, Pels, Mark Hanan, D. J. Russell (the Dunedin manager of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company) and A. Lindsay (secretary of the Canterbuiy Teachers’ Institute). In addition to wreaths received from mourners in Dunedin, many beautiful floral tributes were received from Christchurch.