OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 25347, 26 April 1944, Page 4

OBITUARY

Mr George Halliday

The death has occurred at Invercargill of Mr George Halliday, who was well known throughout Southland for his association with the sawmilling industry. The youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs William Halliday, he was born at Roslyn Bush in 1895 and attended the Roslyn Bush school. Later he worked on his father’s farm until 1917, when his father retired and Mr Halliday joined his brothers in a sawmill at Kamahi. From there he went . into the well-known milling company at Waitane, making his home at Mataura. While a resident at Mataura Mr Halliday was a member of the Bor-, ough Council and the Mataura Draughts Club and attended the Presbyterian Church. ■ Later he lived at‘ Waitane and became secretary of the Glencoe School Committee. IA 19401 he purchased a farm at Otama and had lived in that district up to the time of his death. Keenly interested in the welfare of the farming community, he was for two years secretary of the Otama Primary Production Committee. In 1927 Mr Halliday married at Gore Miss Margaret McAngus, the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A. McAngus, of Mataura, and is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. He is also survived by two sisters and three brothers —Mrs A. Lamont (Auckland), Miss M. Halliday (Herbert street, Invercargill), Messrs A. W-. Halliday (Hororata Canterbury) and John and Adam Halliday (Kamahi).

Mr F. R. Simms

(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. The death is announced of Mr Frederick R. Simms at the age of 80. He was a pioneer motorist and inventor. He drove the first car in Britain and also coined the words motor-car and petrol.

Mr Simms was a cousin of Mr M. H. Mitchel, of Invercargill. Mr Mitchel had received a letter from him only recently. Until lately there was an. agency for Simms Motor Units in Wellington. It was managed at one time by Mr Simms’s cousin, ' Mr Mitfqrd Hankinson, the son of Captain Hankinson, who was a former owner of Te Anau Downs Station.