OBITUARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 160, 9 July 1945, Page 2

OBITUARY

MR. FREDERICK WILDING, K.C. The death is reported in a Press Assoc .ition telegram from Christchurch of Mr. Frederick Wilding, New Zealand’s senior King’s Counsel. He r.ad a record of more than 60 years' active legal practice, commencing in Christchurch in 1879. Mr. Wilding, who was born in Montgomeryshire. Wales was admitted as a barrister in 1874 and came to New Zealand : n 1880. He became a K.C. in 1918. He was a first-class all-round athlete, having been prominent in cricket, Rugby, rowing, athletics and tennis. At tennis he was live times doubles champion of New Zealand. He was the father of Ihe late Anthony Wilding. New Zealand’s greatest tennis player. MR. R. H. BROWN. Thi> death has occurred of Mr. Roy Harris Brown, manager of the Apia branch of Burns Philp (South Seas) Co.. Ltd., aged 51 according to a Press Association message from Apia. He died suddenly on Thursday morning from heart trouble. Mr. Brown leaves a widow and one son. His other son was killed in action in Italy. Mr. Brown was a returned soldier of the 1914-18 war. He had been in the service of the company since August, 1910 arriving at Apia from Haapai, Tonga, in May. 1929. to take over the managership of the Apia branch. He took a prominent part in public affairs and was president of the local chamber of commerce and also Worshipful Master of Lodge Calliope No. 252. mr. w. McKenzie. The death has occurred in Palmerston north of Mr. William McKenzie, a well-known figure in Wairarapa journalistic circles toward the close of the last century. He was 88. Mr. McKenzie entered journalism at 23, when he accepted a position on the "Wairarapa Standard" at Greytown. In 1891 he purchased the “Wairarapa Observer" in Carterton and 11 years later took up farming at Aokautere. A justice of the peace. Mr. McKenzie hold numerous executive positions on Palmerston North farmers’ organisations. most prominent of which was his presidency of the Manawatu A. and P. Association. Ho was a good Rugby and cricket player, gaining distinction in cricket as a Wairarapa representaMr. McKenzie was married twice his second wife predeceasing him a few years ago. MR. J. MARTIN. Mr. James Martin, an old identity of Upper Hutt, died recently aged 88 years. H-’s mother, a daughter of Mr. James Brown, arrived at Wellington with her parents in 1840. His father. Mr. Alexander Gordon Martin, came Io Wellington in 1850, and took un land in the then well-forested area of Upper Hull. Mr. J. Martin, who married a Miss Cudby, joined the Railways Department as a youth, and was in that employment for over 40 years, retiring in 1918. He was for some lime a member of the Upper Hutt Town Board, and a prominent member of (ho Roman Catholic Church. His grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Brown, wore the I censees of the first hotel in tinner Hutt whieh stood on the corner of the main road, now occupied bv the Bank of Australasia. Mr. Martin is survived bv two sons. Messrs. Frank and Basil Martin, and two daughters, i Mrs Daniel Boyle. Naenae, and Mrs. S. IT. Herbert Upper Hutt. The eldest son, Horace, was killed in the First World War