THE LATE-MR. SABIN.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 3, Issue 5, 15 November 1911, Page 368

THE LATE-MR. SABIN.

It is with, regret the death, of Mr. W. T. Sabin, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Supervisor for the Southland District, is chronicled. Mr. Sabin contracted pneumonia, and succumbed after an illness lasting some three weeks. The deceased gentleman joined the Department of Agriculture in October, 1904, having previously been for several years engaged in private practice at Hastings, Hawke’s Bay. He was a most capable and trustworthy officer, well versed in his profession, and he did a. great amount of valuable and effective work in a quiet and unostentatious manner. His death s a severe loss to the Department. Mr. Sabin studied at the London Veterinary College, graduating in 1870. On entering the Government service he was first appointed to Ashburton as Veterinary Inspector at the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company’s free -works there, and in January, 1905, was transferred to Pareora as Veterinary Inspector at the same company’s works there, about a year later being transferred to Invercargill, where he subsequently held the position of Veterinary Supervisor for the Southland District until the date of his death.