MR. A. S. PATERSON
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day
One "of the ablest business men in his day in the Dominion, Mr. Alexander Stronach Paterson died yesterday at the age of 90. Mr. Paterson founded, the firm of A. S. Paterson and Company in 1886. He was president of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce and was made a life member, in 1924. . ■ Mr. Paterson was better known to the present generation as the donor of the big organ in the Dunedin Town Hall. For many years he supplied the library of Knox College with modern books, and the library there •is probably the most complete and reliable of its kind in New Zealand. He took a prominent part in the initiation of the frozen meat industry, and was in the service of the National Mortgage Company when it loaded the ship Dunedin with the first meat cargo from Port Chalmers in 1882.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 13
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