Mr T. A. Waters

Press, 20 November 1981, Page 19

Mr T. A. Waters

Mr Trevor Alan Waters, of Christchurch, national secretary of the Baking Trades Union, has died in Auckland after a brief illness. He was 52. Mr Waters was one of the few New Zealand trade union officials with an LL.B, degree, which he obtained from Canterbury University College.': He was educated at Christchurch Boys’ High School, and became a law clerk in 1948, later working in the baking trade with Stevenson’s and Stacey and Hawker, Ltd. Mr Waters became secretary of the Canterbury branch of the Baking Trades Union when Mr Lyn Davies retired in 1970 and three years later became national secretary and advocate. He became secretary of the Christchurch Biscuit and Confectionery Workers’

Union in August, 1977, after two months as acting secretary after the retirement of Mr W. B. Browne. Later in 1977 he became associated with an attempt by the Canterbury Trades Council to resist the closing of the Aulsebrooks biscuitmaking plant. Mr Waters was a tormer member of the Canterbury Trades Council executive, a member of the Baking and Pastrycooking Industry Apprenticeship Committee, and a member of the district council of the Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association. His hobbies included reading and cricket, but above all heworked hard for his union and the Labour Party. A remembrance service will be held at the Trade Union Centre in Christchurch at 3 p.m. today.