MR. GEORGE LAWRENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1932, Page 8

MR. GEORGE LAWRENCE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

• DUNEDIN, This Dayi rMr George Lawrence, a well-known Ci builder and contractor, and;ex-Mayor of Duaedin, is dead, at the age of 83 :'*"> years. ■ . ". •' •■"- -• .-* ' i

The late Mr. Lawrence was bora at Cuddington, England,: in 1850, and waa self-educated. He commenced work on a farm at the age of eight years, and at_ sixteen went to Ixindon and learnt bricklaying, subsequently becoming: a; ~ builder's foreman. Mr. Lawrence came to New Zealand in 1873, being wrecked on the coast in the ship Surat on New Year's Day of the following year! ....' He was rescued and 'taken.: to "Pott ~'z Chalmers by the French warship Virev Settling in Dunertin, • he' established: ' himself in' business as a builder.land■_' :- contractor, and was' subsequently join* .■■.*'■ ed by his sons, the business .-being'turn*. Ed into a limited liability company.' Mr. Lawrence retired" some years ago: : He took a keen-interest in educational matters, being for some time a. mem^ ■'. her of the Union Street School Com-: ; mittee, and he was "Mayor of Dnnedia. in 1906 and 1907. He was made- a, ' :■'* trustee of the Dunedin, Savings Bank 5 in 1901. ■■••■ •*->- ■•*