OBITUARY
MR J. T. MOWAT O>BESS ASSOCIATION TELBGBASt.) BLENHEIM, August 7. \ The death is announced of Mr John Tinline Mowat, 70 years of age, known as "The Kindly Giant." Mr Mowat was a member of a well- i known Marlborough family, and for the last two years acted as honorary secretary of the Blenheim Relief of Distress Committee. He also had full control of the relief depot. Mr Mowat was educated at Nelson College, where he had a good, athletic record. Later he repre* sented Nelson and. Marlborough at Rugby. For some years Mr Mowat managed a sheep station. Then he visited America, and for some time acted as inspector of stock in the Falkland Islands. In later years, until his retirement, he was in the land agency business in Blenheim. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mesdamjss k. H. Clouston, of Springlands, and Mrs A. Goyder, of Spring Creek, and two sons, Mr Roy Mowat, Wellington, and Mr Alexander Mowat, Mokau.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20928, 8 August 1933, Page 10
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