OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 6

OBITUARY

Mrs T. E. Taylor

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 27. The death occurred in Dunedin this morning of Mrs Elizabeth Best Taylor, J.P., 0.8. E., widow of Mr T. E. Taylor, a former member of Parliament and Mayor of Christchurch. Few women in New Zealand have had a more distinguished career of -public service than Mrs Taylor, to whose foresight, energy and goodwill many of the most useful organizations in the city owe much. Bom in Lyttelton 73 years ago, a daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Ellison, Mrs Taylor was married in 1892. She associated herself with the political and civil duties of her husband and was particularly interested in the lot of mothers and children. She was one of the founders of the Christchurch free kindergartens and a prominent temperance worker. She was one of the early members of the _ Women’s 1 Christian Temperance Union and Dominion president for a considerable time. Mrs Taylor was an enthusiastic member of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association and chairman at the time of her death. She was vice-president of the Christchurch League of Nations Union. Mrs Taylor also had served on the City Council. After her appointment as a Justice of the Peace she was one of the first women to sit in the Children’s Court as a magistrate’s associate. Mrs Taylor is survived by lour daughters, Mrs C. R. Murray, Taumaranui, Mrs Norman Page, Greymouth, Mrs L. Horwood, Dunedin, and Mrs R. G. T. Lewis, Wellington, and one son, Mr E. B. E. Taylor, Greymouth. MR A. H. FERGUSON (P.A.) HASTINGS, April 25. The death has occurred of Mr Arthur Henry Ferguson, who for 35 years was clerk of the Hawke’s Bay County Council. He was born in 1872 in Derbyshire and retired in 1935.