SIR WALTER BUCHANAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 171, 21 July 1924, Page 8

SIR WALTER BUCHANAN.

DEATH FOLLOWS ACCIDENT. CAR SWERVES INTO BITCH. CLOSE OF A LOXG CAREER. (By Telegraph. — Press Association.) MASTER-TON, Sunday. The death occurred on Saturday night following a motor mishap of Sir Walter Clark Buchanan, M.L.C. Deceased was driving a car from his home to the town during a heavy storm. When turning v corner his hat blew oil', and in his endeavour to recover it the car swerved into a ditch. He left the car and went to an adjacent house to communicate for assistance, and when he returned to the car apparently dropped dead from heart trouble as the result of overexertion, and was found a few minutes after by a friend who had come to his assistance. A doctor was summoned, but could only confirm death. The funeral takes place at Clareville cemetery at noon on Tuesday, leaving his late residence at Masterton at 11 a.m. fiir Walter Buchanan was born at Glendaruel, Scotland, on June 20th, IS3S. the son of Baron Donald Buchanan, of Auchenbreck. He was educated in the parish school at (Jlendaruel, and later at (irenoch Academy. At IS years he emigrated to Australia, where he followed the occupation of v stockman in Victoria for six years. He joined the stream to the goldfields of Otago in 1803, and in a year or two leased a farm in Canterbury and engaged in cattle dealing, between the two islands. In IS7I he came to the Wairarapa, where he purchased the original Tupurtipuru station of 13.000 acres, which he was farming nt the time of his death. He established an Englisn Leicester stud and specialised in Lincoln sheep and Shorthorn cattle. For more than 40 years he was conspicuous in the Parliamentary life of New Zealand. He first became member for Wairarapa South in ISBI, and sat till 18S7, and then for Wairarapa till 1880. He then lost the seat to Mr. J. T. M. Hornsby, and regained it in 1902, then lost it again to Mr. Hornsby in 10(K>. He regained it in 1008, and held it till 1914. He was appointed to the Upper House in 1015, and was knighted in 1012. In 1881 he assisted tho flotation of the Wellington Meat Export Company, and was the first chairman of directors. He assisted with the establishment of the Greytown and Clareville dairy factories, and was interested in fruitgrowing. Amonjr his benefnetions were the Buchanan Home for Incurables at Greytown, and he recently endowed the Chair of Agriculture at Victoria Unisitv with the sum of £10,000. He was a liberal donor to patriotic funds during tho war, and took great interest in education, and for 30 years was the Wairarapa member of the Wellington Education Board. He was past president and latterly patron of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society, and a prominent member of the Council of Agriculture and the Royal Asrricultural Society. One of his latent interests was in the'establishment of Flock House, for the training of British boys. He leaves two nephews at Masterton and two nieces in Hawera.