Death of Mr. Alan O.

McKenzie

(COLLAPSING while at his work in a j Sydney bank on March 18, Mr. Alan Ord McKenzie received injuries which caused his death within a few minutes. He had many friends in Aus tralia, Papua and Fiji, oy whom he was held in high regard. He was a son of Alexander McKenzie, a Scottish engineer wno was responsible for the early de velopment oi the sugar industry in Queensland, and he was born at Dunge ness in the Herbert River area of Queens land in May 1876.

As a youth, Mr. McKenzie entered the Sydney office of Burns, Phnp & Co., and was transferred to the Cooktown branch.

Here he joined the firm of Bowden & McKenzie, engaged in the pearling indus try. From Cooktown he went to Papua, wnere he was connected with the well known firm of Whitten Bros, Prior to World War I, he became connected with Burns, Philp (South Seas) Co., at Levuka, and m 1927 he was transferred to Suva as manager. In 1932, he became a dir ector of the company, and resigned in 1936, making his home in Sydney. At the outbreak of war he joined the tem porary staff of the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney, and it was with this institu tion that he was serving at the time of his death.

He married Miss Moody (a sister of the late F. O. Moody, who was well known to New Guinea residents as a member of the TNG Agricultural staff) in 1905 and she survives him. There were two daughters of the marriage; the late Mrs.

H. E. Snell, of Fiji, and Miss Valmai McKenzie, who is at present attached to the Finance Section of the US Army at Saipan.