OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16262, 12 July 1918, Page 8

OBITUARY.

The death occurred at Masterton on Wednesday, of Mr Duncan MaLachlan, civil engineer, of Homeßush. Th© late Mr McLachlan arrived in Wellington from Scotland with his parents 58 years ago. He had been associated with various Connty Councils and Road Boards in the Wairarapa district as engineer and surveyor" for some 35 years. For 15 years he had been engineer to the Masterton County Council, but during the past two years he had practised his profession •of engineer privately. He leaves a widow and two daughters. The latter are Mrs J. G. Wingate and Mrs H. R. Biss (wife of Lieut. Biss, who is on active service).

The death occurred on Tuesday of Mr Herbert Norman Brewer, youngest "son the late Mr William Brewer, of Waihau, Waverley. The deceased practically managed the whole of the properties on the well-known Brewer estate. He took a great interest in sport of all kinds and matters connected therewith. He was one of the most progressive men in the district. He was a member of tho Waverley Jockey Club, and Waverley Hunt Club. His death at the early age of 33 years is greatly regretted.

Mr David Wighton, of Palmerston North, and formerly of Wellington, has re-.-eived advice of the death in England of his eldest son, Mr Robert Wighton. He was born in Dundee (Sootland) in 1877, arrived in Wellington in 1885, and was educated at the Terrace School. In his earlier years he was a keen swimmer and footballer. He got his business training with Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co and Bing, Harris, and Co., and left New Zealand in 1898 for London. He was the Australian representative for Messrs Crocker, Sons, and Co., with his headquarters in Melbourne, for several years. He returned to London, and he and Mr George E. Adair, of Gisborne, <bommenced business as buyers and shippers. Messrs Adair, Wighton, and Co. had their business premises m Bunhill row, London. Mr Wighton made periodical visits to the colonies, and was well known and appreciated for his social and kindly disposition. His chief pastime was golf, and he was captain of a famous club at West Hove. He was unmarried, and bad his home at the Hotel Metropole, Brighton.

The death is announced at Auckland cf Mr John Watson, who for a great many years was connected with the rirm of Messrs A. and G. Price, engineers, at Thames. The deceased, who was a native of Scotland, came out to Now Zealand when he was a young man, and became accountant for Price's over 40 years ago. At the time of his death he was a very wealthy man, having come into a large fortune through the death of a relative in the Old Country. One of his sons is a medical man at Home, and another has just returned from the front.

Mr David Teed, senr., formerly of New Plymouth, died on Monday at a private hospital in Auckland. He came to New Zealand in 1882 from England, and for about 35 years followed his profession as a chemist in New Plymouth. Deceased was the father of Mr David Teed, of Newmarket, an ex-Mayor of that borough.

Mr • William Webster, who died at Auckland on Monday, was a native of Aberdeen, and came to New Zealand in 1873, and settled in the Auckland dis-; trict. Shortly after his arrival he entered the service of the Railway Department, and for thirty years he was well known as a guard on the trains on the Whangarei and Auckland sections. Mr Webster leaves a widow and four sons. One of the sons, Sergeant G. F. Webster, of the Gordon Highlanders, fought at Mons, and another Private T. W. Webster, is now at the front as, a member of tne New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Th© other sons are Messrs It. S. Webster, second as-sistant-master at the Newton East school, and Mr A. W. Webster, of Devonport.