OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17414, 27 March 1922, Page 11

OBITUARY.

•I. tf.M. HANNAY. ' „,rred at Wellington on V **^M>William Mowat Hanv« s«w.iffiiy Commissioner and II > M t&v Companv, at the The late Mr Han'i! *Of ** „o well known as a man i \ « bo t,ncte", and an able manifetf S born in Glasgow m ilfter receiving his education, If service of one of the big tIS companies, where he ..ground railway experience I \ew Zealand in 18jo, and Coined the railway service, beJ - i«l -.s district manager of SSbury. He was not lons Service before his exceptional .1 extensive knowledge were Tan'd he was soon promoted ffiJ of assistant general manWellington. Subsequently he n9 0 f the Railway CommisTn 1894, when the Government to change the system of railneement, Mr Hnnnay's services wntinimd. although Cabinet ij j,; s abilities as a railway On the resignation of Mr h-illace as general manager of npton-Manawatu Railway Com- > directors annomted Mr Hane position, which he continued pith conspicuous ability until i?ns bought by the Govern- | the company was wound ur>. my thereafter retired into pribut continued to be associated local mercantile and business ;y, being a director of various j including the Commercial itirance Company, the Victoria the Metropolitan Building and the Automatic Bakeries, jr many years an elder of the ace Presbyterian Church. He ridow and two sons and three ito mourn their loss. The sfr A. Hannay (managing dijtfanson and Barr, Palmerston id Mr K. B. Hannay (of Dai--1 Co., Wellington). The are Mrs F. C. Widdop (WeiMrs Forrest (Palmerston id Miss J. Hannay (Welling- \ JOHN DAVIDSON, n Davidson, one of the bestddents of Kaikoura., died on afternoon, aged 57 years. He l of the late Captain David- \ brother of Mr James Davide late Mr Davidson was for re chairman of the Kaikoura ipany. He was prominent in bes of sport, and also in nd Oddfellow circles.' ?ery old settler of the North trict died on Friday in the lit Thomas Milne, who was; years a sheep-farmer in the sea Valley. Mr Milne was [orayshire, Scotland, in 1851, ironght up to farming on his inn. He came to New Zea--872, and settled in Timarule purchased a property at ne&, to which, he gave the Viewfield. There he carried tineas of a sheep fanner until ra ago, when ha retired and is residence in Oamaru. Mr k a lively interest in local [e was an active member of iki Gaelic Society, of which te pipe-major. He leaves a family of one son and two •one of the latter being Mrs igley, of Oamaru.