OBITUARY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 260, 27 June 1932, Page 4

OBITUARY

G

. SKENE DIXON

MR.

General regret will be felt at the death of Mr. >G. Skene Dixon, an old and widely respected resident of Rotorua, who passed away at his residence, Pukuatua Street yesterday evening. ' The deceased gentleman was a native of Dublin, where he received his early education. He also studied at neuchatel; in. Switzerland. In 1884 he came to New Zealand, and after a short stay in Auckland, settled in Whangarei, where he spent some years. He afterwards lived successively at Auckland, Cambridge, Hamilton and Melbourne, whence he came to Rotorua twenty years ago and here practised his profession of dentistry for some years till failing health coTnpelled his retirement from active life. " In every district in which he lived, Mr. Dixon rendered conspicuous service to the churches, occupying many official positions, while for 50 years he was prominent in Sunday Schoolwork. He was, for a considerable time, an official and Sunday School superintendent of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Rotorua, and his activities extended to every kind of social welfare work. In 1886 he established in the Whangarei district a branch of the St. John Ambulance Association, this being the first in the Auckland province, if not in the North Island. Whilst practising dentistry in Hamilton nearly 30 years ago, he examined, gratuitously, the teeth of 120 school children, being the first dentist to undertake such work in New Zealand. His snhsequent report to the authorities advocated the dental clinic on school premises as we know it today. He was also associated with the Temperance movement • and the Y.M.C.A. Mr. Dixon is survived by MrS Dixon and his two sons, Mr C. G. Dixon, of Ohaewai and Mr G„ S. Dixon, of Hamilton.