Obituary Mr L. E. H. Baigent

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31276, 24 January 1967, Page 14

Obituary Mr L. E. H. Baigent

(N.Z. Press Association) NELSON, Jan. 23. Fifty-seven years of service to the New Zealand timber industry ended yesterday morning with the death of Mr Lewis Edward Henry Baigent, 0.8. E., of Nelson. He was aged 79. Mr Baigent was chairman of directors of the family firm of H. Baigent and Sons, the largest private plantation owners in the country. A former president of the Dominion Sawmillers* Federation, he played a major part in the establishment of radiata pine forests in New Zealand. He was the grandson of Mr Edward Baigent, who arrived in Nelson from Britain in 1842, and was educated at Nelson College.

In 1924 he became the Nel-son-Marlborough representative to the Sawmillers’ Federation and was elected vicepresident in 1933. He was appointed president in 1941 and served until 1952, when he was made an honorary life president. When he died, Mr Baigent was acting chairman of the Dominion Forest Owners’ Association and an executive member of the New Zealand Boxmakers* Association. He was also a director of Forest

Investigations, Ltd., the company investigating the establishment of a Nelson pulp mill.

His local interests , included the provincial Progess League and the Nelson Employer’s Association. Mr Baigent was interested in the history of the Nelson district and retired last year after a long term as president of the Nelson Historical Society. For his role in the development of New Zealand’s exotic forests he was awarded the 0.8. E. last June. MR A. C. LAMB (N.Z. Press Association) WHANGAREI, Jan. 23. Mr Alan Cunningham Lamb, a leading member of the legal profession in Northland, died suddenly in Whangarei yesterday. He was aged 66. Mr Lamb, a graduate of Auckland University, started practice in-Whengaroi in 1929 with the late Mr H. S. Bannister and joined Messrs P. S. N. Connell and R. K. Trimmer in partnership. Mr Lamb played senior Rugby for Grafton in Auckland, was an amateur boxer of standing, and was a leading golfer and bowler.