DEATH OF SIR DAVID HENRY

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30215, 21 August 1963, Page 20

DEATH OF SIR DAVID HENRY

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 20. Sir David Henry, maeiagingdi. rector of N.Z. Forest Products, Ltd., died this morning. Bom in Edinburgh in 1888, he was apprenticed to New Zealand in 1907. beginning as a farmhand ait 30s a week. From this humble start he was to rise to the shaping and control of a £26.000,000 industrial enterprise, N.Z. Forest Products, Ltd. At the statutory meeting of this company in 1936 he was made a director. The same year he became chairman of directors and two years later was appointed managingdirector. Thirteen years after landing in New Zealand, Sir David Henry moved from Christchurch and founded the sheet metal firm of D. Henry and Company, Freemans Bay, Auckland, in 1920 He became at various times president of the Auckland .Rotary Club, president of the Auckland Y.M.C.A., a member of the Auckland City Council, and a member of the council of the Boy Scouts’ Association. He was knighted in 1954. Sir David Henry was recognised as the leading authority on exotic forest development and its use. Under his leadership, Forest Products grew

to be one of the biggest companies in New Zealand. He is survived by his second wife and one daughter, Mrs A. McCulloch. “Few men have made such a tremendous contribution to the life and progress of New Zealand—we owe a great deal to this foresight and energetic life of service," the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) said today in a tribute to Sir David Henry. Mr Holyoake said that in a busy life Sir David Henry had taken a full part in the work of community welfare and civic administration in Auckland; but he would be best remembered as the pioneering spirit and driving force of Forest Products Church Parade.— The one hundred and tenth anniversary of St. Bartholomew’s Church of England, in Kaiapoi, will be attended by the Mayor and members of the Kaiapoi Borough Council next Sunday. The council accepted a suggestion by Cr. F. Ciemett that a church parade should be held every four months, so that the council could visit every denomination represented in Kaiapoi during its term of office.