felkin spent the rest of his life in new zealand, where he continued to practise as a consulting physician as well as a magician between bouts of ill health. his strong personality and clinical acumen, combined with a kind and generous nature brought him patients from far afield, including australia. on 28 december 1926, he died at havelock north, and was buried in the havelock north cemetery facing the whare ra, wearing the cloak, mantle and purple cross of a knight of the ordo tabulae rotundae. he was survived by his second wife harriet, his daughter ethelwyn, and two sons; harriet and ethelwyn were later buried with him.