OBITUARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 296, 16 December 1942, Page 4

OBITUARY

MR. FRANK SPENCER Mr. Frank Spencer, formerly of GonviHe, Wanganui, died at Rotorua on Monday, aged 82 years. Born in England, Mr. Spencer came to New Zealand wnen a youth. Alter t farming lor some years at Taitapu, I he came to the North Island more I than 50 years ago, taking up land at j Cheltenham. Later he became rep- ■ resentative for Messrs. Reid and I | Grey in the Wanganui district, being i well and favourably known to the ; iarming community. More than 30 1 (years ago Mr. Spencer took up land in the Marton district for a few years, : later retiring to reside in Wanganui. He was a Justice of the Peace and in his younger days a keen volunteer, holding commissioned rank. He was a valued member of St. Peter's Church congregation and served as vestryman and church warden. It was largely due to Mr. Spencer’s ' efforts that St. Peter’s Church pos- 1 sesses its beautiful organ. Mr. Spencer had resided in Rotorua for the past two years. MR. H. D. ACLAND. The death is reported from Christ- ' church of Mr. Henry Dyke Acland, a well-known figure in the public life of 1 the Dominion. Mr. Acland. who was ' born in New Zealand in 1867, gave wide community service both with j local bodies and in the cause of education. He was educated at Christ's College and took his B.A. degree at Oxford. After being admitted as a barrister-at-law at the Inner Temple in 1891 he spent some years in New South Wales and returned to New Zealand in 1904. From 1923 till the time of his death he had been a member of the Senate of the New Zealand University, and ' for many years, including 10 as chairman, he had a se’t on the Canterbury ’ University College Board of Gover- < nors. He also did much good work 1 for the W.E.A., being sometime presi- - dent of the Dominion and Canterbury < councils. Mr. Acland had been preside! of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ 1 Federation from 1909, a member ot ‘ the New Zealand Meat Board for 1 many years, president of the Citizens’ • Association in Christchurch, and a 1 member for some years of the Christ- 1 church City Council, as well as having « been chairman of the Railways Board t in 1924. He was the South Island < Consul for Denmark, and in the politi- t cal field was a Reform candidate for ' the Avon seat in 1914. He was a party ' ner in the firm of Wilding and Acland, 1 barristers and solicitors, and was also a I director of Andersons. Ltd., and Beath 11 nnd Co.. Ltd. His wife died some time i ago. and he leaves two daughters, one 11 of whom has been a prisoner of war. 11 A brother is Colonel Sir Hugh Acland. la