Dr Jim Martin died after illness in March this year. He had retired after a lifetime of service being in the field of Ophthalmology since 1954. He was a resident at the Eye and Ear Hospital in 1954 to 55. He travelled to the United Kingdom in 1957 and was on the staff at Moorfields from 1957 to 1961

Dr John Lawrence Bignell, a leading ophthalmologist in Melbourne for many years, died on Monday 31 October 2005 after a long illness. John was born in Melbourne on 24 May 1917, the second son of Colonel and Mrs F Bignell; his father was also a doctor and served in France in the First World War. J

Lindo Ferguson died peacefully on 19 January 2014 at the age of 90 years. Lindo was born in an historic home on his parents' dairy farm at Waimate North. He was educated by a governess until the family moved to Dunedin during the 1929 depression when he was aged 7. He attended John McGlashan Scho