Obituary DR. A. F. CRICK

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 19

Obituary DR. A. F. CRICK

(N.Z. Press Association)

AUCKLAND, March 10.

Dr. Anthony Foster Crick, a well-known Auckland radiologist, has died. He was 47. Bom in Northampton, England, Dr. Crick came to New Zealand in 1948. He held administrative office with the Australasian College of Radiology, and was for several years the New Zealand delegate to the college council. Dr Crick was known for his original work in obstetric radiology, and the college awarded ham a fellowship in 1962.

He Is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.

MR R. P. S. KELMAN

Mr Ranfurly Percival Stanley Kelman, a former medical superintendent and surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, died towards the end of 1965. He was 67. Mr Kelman was born in Ranfurly, Central Otago, in 1898. He was educated at the Otago Boys’ High School, and graduated M.8.Ch.8. from Otago University in 1921. After two years in residential appointments at the Auckland Hospital he went to the United Kingdom in 1924 and obtained the conjoint diploma the same year, and the fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh in 1926. He was appointed medical superintendent of Selly Oak Hospital in 1927 with the dual role of administrator and surgeon. He remained there until his retirement through ill-health in 1962. Mr Kelman was a keen territorial officer and served in France as officer commanding a surgical division with the rank of lieutenantcolonel. After Dunkirk he was sent to India where at Bareilly in the United Provinces, he was concerned with casualties from Burma. In 1943 he was appointed commanding officer of a new base hospital formed in Madras to serve the Burma front. His wife died earlier in 1965.

Mrs G. W. Skellerup, of Christchurch, is a cousin.

MR S. S. WILSON

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Mar. 11.

Mr Stuart Scott Wilson, a director of Wilson and Horton, Ltd., publishers of the “New Zealand Herald,” died this week aged 59. Mr Wilson was the younger son of Mr W. R. Wilson. He was educated at Christ’s College where he set up a brilliant record in cricket and Rugby and joined the staff of the “New Zealand Herald” in 1926. He became a director of Wilson and Horton, Ltd., in 1949.

With his brother, Mr R. B. Wilson, he was closely interested in the work of the Wilson home for crippled children which was a gift to Auckland by his parents. He took a prominent part in golf and yachting.