IMPRESSIVE SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 10

IMPRESSIVE SERVICE

Funeral of Professor Macmillan Brown CEREMONY AT DUNEDIN By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, January 22. Last tributes to a man whose name will always live in the annals of university education in New Zealand were paid during a dignified and moving ceremony at the Anderson Bay crematorium this afternoon when the funeral of Professor John Macmillan Brown was conducted in the presence of an attendance representative of organisations with which he had been so closely allied during his lifetime. The cortege left the undertaker’s premises at 1.45 p.m. and proceeded to the crematorium, where the Bishop of Dunedin, the Rt. Rev. W. A. R. Fitchett, conducted an impressive service. The chief mourners were Professor Macmillan Brown’s daughters, Mrs. A. M. L. Baxter (Brighton) and Miss Viola Macmillan Brown (Christchurch), who were accompanied to the cemetery by Mrs. J. A. Hanan. The pall-bearers were Mr. W. D. Campbell (Tirnaru), one of the trustees of the estate, and Professors Benham, Malcolm Gowland, Andrew and Adams. The Otago University Council was represented by Sir Lindo Ferguson, Sir James Allen, Dr. James Fitzgerald, Messrs J. Wallace, J. M. Butler, J. W. Dove, J. Robertson, W. R. Brugb, and s H. Chapman (University Registrar), and others also in attendance included Professor White, Dr. C. Hanan, Dr. T. T. Thompson, Messrs. Willi Eels, Mark Hanan. D. J. Russell (Dunedin, manager of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co.), and A. Lindsay (secretary of the Canterbury Teachers’ Institute). In addition to wreaths received from mourners in Dunedin, many beautiful floral tributes were received from Christchurch.