Obituary MR S. M. GRAHAM

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31092, 22 June 1966, Page 12

Obituary MR S. M. GRAHAM

Mr Selwyn Milburn Graham, a well-known public accountant and officer of several Christchurch business and charitable organisations, died yesterday after a long illness. He was 50. Mr Graham was born in Timaru and educated in Ashburton. He was with the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association in Ashburton and Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., in Christchurch. Early in the Second World War, he joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He was commissioned and served in Fiji and the Solomon Islands as an adjutant with construction and bomberreconnaissance squadrons. Before his demobilisation he was adjutant at Harewood until it ceased to be an Air Force station. After the war he was with Airwork (N.Z.), Ltd., at Harewood. He took a bachelor of commerce degree at the University of Canterbury and qualified as an accountant. During private practice in the firm of Graham and Tipping he was secretary of the Canterbury International Air Race Council, which organised the London-Christchurch air race in 1953; secretary of the Christchurch Woolbrokers’ Association, and of the North Canterbury Stock and Station Agents’ Association. For many years Mr Graham was honorary auditor for Heritage (Canterbury), and also was honorary auditor for the Christchurch Aged People's Welfare Council. He lectured in auditing at the Christchurch Technical College before his illness. In his younger days Mr Graham was a keen mountaineer, and was a member of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club.