OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 8

OBITUARY

Sir Robert Anderson, C.M.G. The. death is reported in a Press'Association telegram from Xnvergarill of Sir Robert Anderson; C.M.G., after a lengthy illness. „ e Sir Robert Anderson, Governor .ot Rotarv, was born in Queenstown m lbw, his father, Robert Anderson, having emigrated from Glasgow and/ set up a business at Frankton in 1862. Sir Robert was educated at Queenstown and in'T l ;- cargill and began his career as a clerk with the Southland Building. Society, with, which he remained for four years; then joining Murray, Dalgleish' and Co., Invercargill. Four years later he joined the late Sir Joseph Ward as accountant, and they formed the business, of J. G-Ward-and Co., Ltd. lie continued with t.he firm, rising to chief executive officer. In August 1930, Sir Robert was appointed a director of the Bank of New Zealand in succession to Mr. .William Reece, of Christchurch, and lie. was also on the directorate of the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., New Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd., New Zealand Milk Products, Ltd., and many other business organizations.He was keenly interested in farming, owning two properties in Southland and specializing in fat sheep and cattle. Early this year he made a gift of (>t)o acres of first class' land five miles from jhe Dipton railway station for the settlement of returned servicemen. He interested himself always, widely in the life' of the community. He has been president' of the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society, a member of the Bluff Harbour Board, ehairman of the advisory board of the Inver cargill branch of the Plunket Society, for ten years a member of the East Invercargill Borough Council, chairman oi the Southland High School Board of Governors, member of the Southland Power Board, chairman of the Bluff Har-' hour Board, and a member of the Locil Body Loans Board. In J 888 he uiacried Elizabeth Maria, daughter of Mr. Peter Walker, of Scotland and Invercargill, and had two sons and two daughters.