DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 579, 6 August 1909, Page 7

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

,' (By iTolegrapli.—Spcilal Correspondent.) Wangartul, August 5. Great regrot is folt throughout , this'district at the death,' at the ag6 of 66, of Mr. John Henry Nixon, a prominent figuro in commercial and sporting circles. Mr. Nixon was identjned practicaHy all his lifo ,wjth the growth of After education WaiigaiWi Colldgiiito School ho entered - the Bank of Australasia passing to the National and then to tho Colonial Bank, becoming inanager of 'the local branch or tho last-named. \ On the amalgamation of tho Colonial Bank i with the Bank of New' Zealand, lie became manager of th« | latter, holding tho post for ten years.' Ho retired trom banking three yearri ago, and built up u. well-laiown land i and stock business. Ho was a member cf many local associations, and his financial ability led to him being appointed treasurer of nearly all of them 1 . Ho ionJered invalu-1 able tervicos to the agricultural association arid the Wanganui Musolini, being for a titne I president of the fbrhier, and on, tbd manag-' >mg body of the latter. Ho was also a • director of tho public library, and a promijient member of several other semi-publio bodies. Ho took a keen interest" in racing, and i v/fts treasurer for ten years of the Jockey Club. He was' an indefatigdblt worker, and p6ssossed of an UncoiiqueiiDie cheerfulness, which not even a long and painful illness could quench. He leaves a 4. wife, ono son, ami five daughters, for 'whom much sympathy is felt. Anothor old identity, who died recently, aged 1)0, was Mr. John M'Donald, for thirty years a resident of Wangaohu, He led a very adventurous life in his earlier years, and went through all tho 'hardships of colofiial pioncoriug. '