OBITUARY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 28, 13 November 1947, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR J. G. ANDREWS The death has occurred of Mr James George Andrews, a pioneer motor and cycle trader in England, who came to New Zealand in 1906, and started some of the early motor businesses. He was born at Bristol 73 years ago. Ae early as 1902, Mr Andrews represented motor and cycle traders at conferences in Birmingham. He can claim the--first motor wedding in England, when in 1903 he travelled t® and left the reception in his Benz. Wlienhe came to New Zealand, Mr Andrews took up a motor and cycle business at Hastings, and about a year later became manager of the cycle firm of E. Reynolds and Company, Timaru.... In 190 S he opened a cycle and then a motor business at Teriiuka. He was later_in business at Ashburton. He retired from this work in 1922 and came to Christchurch to enter the real estate business. ■' In 1914 Mr Andrews became associated with .Mr J. W. H. Scotland, who made some of the first flights in New Zealand in his Caudron biplane. He endeavoured to organise the forerunner of the modern air mail service, having arranged with Mr Scotland to drop mail at Temuka on his Timaru-Christchurch flight,'which proved’ to be a pioneer cross-country trip. The mail was dropped on schedule near the railway station; but the aircraft developed engine trouble shortly afterwards, and had to land at Orari. Mr Andrews went to repair it, and found that two ignition wires had crossed and the engine had been running on four of the six cylinders.