OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25550, 19 July 1948, Page 3

OBITUARY

MR T. MANNING “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, July 17. Mr Thomas Manning, one of the four New Zealanders who sailed with the ill-fated Scott Polar expedition to the Antarctic in 1910, has died in the Cornwall Hospital, aged 82. Born in Dundee, Mr Manning first went to sea in sailing ships in the Indian service. He lived in Australia for a time before going to the South African War, and later he came to New Zealand.

He was employed at Lyttelton when the Terra Nova, Captain R. F. Scott’s ship, refitted, and he joined the crew as a blacksmith. After the death of Captain Scott and his companions the Terra Nova returned to Lyttelton and Mr Manning signed off the ship. He worked at his trade in Wellington and Auckland until his retirement several years ago. MR THOMAS LEWITT The death occurred at Ashburton on Saturday of Mr Thomas Lewitt, man-aging-director of Buxton and Thomas Ltd., Ashburton. Mr Lewitt came from Akaroa to Ashburton in 1928, where he bought the Arcadia Tea Rooms and catering business and later the grocery business of Buxton and Thomas, Ltd., in the Triangle, extending it to another shop in East street in November, 1941. When Mr Lewitt was in Akaroa he was a member of the Akacoa Borough Council from 1907 until 1919, except for a short period, and was interested in the borough electrical scheme, being chairman of the electricity committee of the council for some years. Mr Lewitt. coming to Ashburton, took no active part in civic affairs, but was a member of the Ashburton Chamber of Commerce, a former member of the Rotary Club and a past-president of the citizens’ committee of the Ashburton Silver Band. He was also a pastpresident of the Ashburton Bowling Club, a member of the Ashburton E.C. Masonic Lodge and on the management committee of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. lyir Lewitt was a member of the Akaroa Borough Council when the Lake Coleridge scheme was put into operation. He was the council representative on the special committee that worked to get the Coleridge power extended to Akaroa. At Akaroa Mr Lewitt was president and later captain of the Akaroa Boating Club and president of the Akaroa Bowling Club in 1917-18. He was a member of the Phoenix Mesonic Lodge and was interested in the Akaroa Horticultural Society, of which he was secretary for several years.

Mr Lewitt is survived by his widow, two sons and two daughters.