DEATH OF MR ALEXANDER KERR.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4184, 11 January 1871, Page 2

DEATH OF MR ALEXANDER KERR.

We notice in our obituary columns an announcement of the death at Sydney, on the 31st December, of Mr. Alexander Kerr, late manager of the Wellington, and formerly of the" Auckland branch of the Union Bank of Australia. Mr. Kerr was one of the oldest New Zealand colonists, having come out with the first band of settlers to Nelson in the 'Fifeshire,' arriving iv the early part of 1842. He -vraa born at Linlithgow, in Scotland, 11th January, 1828, and had not completed his 43rd year. He entered the Bank as a junior at Nelson in January, 1843 ; served at Auckland as accountant at the opening of the branch in 1847, and then for three years at Sydney ; returned to Nelson as n>aii»ger ; paid a visit to England on a year's leave ; and on his return was appointed manager at Auckland, and finally manager at Wellington in 186S, which appointment he held at the time of his death. The professional qualities of the deceased gentleman were highly valued by the directors and principal officers of the Bank to which his services were devoted for so many years, while his uniform justice, consideration, and urbanity endeared him to the numerous subordinates in its various branches with which, from time to time, he was connected. With a perfect freedom from all pretension, Mr. Kerr was possessed in a marked degree of good sense and good feeling. With the strictest honour and probity, and the prudence, reserve, and reticence so essential to his profession, he combined a frank and manly geniality and kindliness, which secured for him "both tine reaped »nd esteem of the wide circle of friends and acquaintances who lament his premature decease.