OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR. V. H. DENTICE

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Vincent Harold Dentice, of the firm of Messrs. Whiteacre, Dentice, and Co., land agents, at his residence, 5 Dufferin Street, at the age of 51 years. The late Mr. Dentice was born in Wellington, aud educated at the Newtown School. He was a member of the Wellington Trotting Club, and of the Miramar Golf Club. He was also a member of St. Andrew's Masonic Lodge. The late Mr. Dentice is connected with a very old Wellington family, the same as that after which Dixon Street is named, and his maternal grandmother was one of the first white twins born in New Zealand. The twins married brothers. The Dixon family, in the early days, produced the "Independent" newspaper. Mi*. G. H. Dixon, of Wellington, was the manager of the 1905 All Black team. Mr. Dentice is survived by four brothers, ill of Wellington. Reginald, C. L., William, and Reynolds, and two sisters, Mesdames Rowe and Reynolds. Mr. Dentice leaves a widow and five children, Messrs. Vincent, Malcolm, and Trevor, and two younger ones, Barry and Elva. The funeral will leave Messrs. R. H. Wilson and Son's Chapel at 1.50 p.m. tomorrow: