WELL-KNOWN DANCER

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 7

WELL-KNOWN DANCER

DEATH OF MRS. PETER MACKENZIE. HAD WON MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS. Mrs. Peter MacKenzie, who died at New Plymouth on Thursday, was formerly well known throughout New Zealand as a judge of national dancing. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Seaman, Wellington, Mrs. MacKenzie was born at Invercargill. From early girlhood she showed great skill as a national dancer, and up till the age of 20 she won championship contests from one end of the Dominion to the other. She won 130 gold medals, besides a large number of other medals and trophies. Mrs. MacKenzie had been bed-ridden for eight months and had suffered from illness for many years. She is survived by a husband and a son and daughter, aged seven and five and a-half years respectively. In the absence of the Rev. J. D. McL. Wilson, the funeral service at Te Henui cemetery on Saturday afternoon was conducted by the Rev. J. Nixon. Mrs. MacKenzie and her husband had always taken a keen interest in the New Plymouth Caledonian Pipe Band. Members of the band acted as bearers. The band marched from the cemetery gates to the chapel, led by Pipe-Majors N. Cruden and A. S. Kirkland. The pipers played “The Flowers of the Forest” during the procession from the chapel to the .graveside, and at the conclusion of the service they played a lament.