MR. N. KETTLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 6

MR. N. KETTLE

One of Hawke's Bay's leading citizens, Mr. Nathaniel Kettle, died yesterday in Napier at the age of 86. He was a son of the late Mr. Charles Henry Kettle, who was chief surveyor for the New Zealand Company and who surveyed the site of Dunedin and discovered the Wairarapa Plains in 1839. Mr. Kettle was born in Dunedin in 1854 and educated at the High School there and at other local schools. In 18G9 he entered the office of G. G. Russell and Co., wool and general merchants, and eigh: .years later he went to Napier as manager of the Hawke's Bay business of Murray, Common, and Co., now Murray, Roberts, and Co. In 1884 Mr. Kettle joined Mr. F. W. Williams in ■ a business which he had founded three or four years earlier, and which subsequently became known, as Williams and Kettle, Ltd. Mr. Kettle was interested in military affairs and commanded the Hawke's

Bay and East Coast Volunteers. On the outbreak of the Boer War he took charge of the Napier Guards, and then commanded the East Coast Battalion as lieutenant-colonel. He also participated in public affairs. He was a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, with which he was connected at its formation, and was a pastpresident. He was a former president of the Hawke's Bay A. and P. Society. Many sports, particularly golf, found in him a keen patron. In 1880 Mr. Kettle married a daughter of Major yon Tempsky, commander of the Bushranger Corps during the Maori Wars.' His wife predeceased him two years ago, and he leaves two sons, Messrs. F. V. Kettle and R. D. Kettle, Napier, and two daughters, Mrs. J. Platten, London, and Mrs. S. A. Moffatt. "New York.