From the Otago Daily Times:
Dr Douglas Little, an influential classics teacher who retired from the University of Otago classics department as an associate professor in 1987, has died in Dunedin after a long illness.
He was in his mid-70s.
Dr Little, who at one stage was the department’s only New Zealand-born staff member, had earlier graduated from Otago University with an MA(Hons) in Latin and German and an honours degree in Greek, before gaining a PhD in classics at the University of Texas, in Austin.
Having earlier served as an assistant lecturer, he returned to the Otago classics staff as a senior lecturer in 1975, after completing his doctorate.
[n.b. the ODT promised a proper obituary ‘to follow’, but it doesn’t seem to have made it to the web ~ dm]
rogueclassicism 
Makes me realise yet again how far away I am from NZ: I hadn’t realised Doug had died till I saw this on rogueclassicism. Doug was a great guy, and a great scholar in the real sense of the word.
I took first year intensive Classical Greek from Doug at the University of Texas in 1973. While working on his Ph.D. in Austin he also was an instructor in the Classics department. I remember him as a gentle soul who was well-liked by his students. He invited us to celebrate with him at a local pub at the end of the academic term. I went on to study more Greek in theological seminary and doctoral studies, and the foundation in Greek that I received from Doug helped make that possible. Requiescat in pace.
– Stephen E. Westfall, Naperville, Illinois