LATE MR. T. W. OWEN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 May 1927, Page 4

LATE MR. T. W. OWEN.

(Contributed.)

A settler of over forty years’ standing in 'South Taranaki, and held in high esteem by the whole community, Mr T. W. Owen, of Hawera, was one of those who took a prominent part in the life of the district during his long residence in South Taranaki. Coming to Hawera in 1883, he took up land immediately afterwards and was resident there until 1911. He was a director of the first dairy factory at Otakeho, one of the earliest formed in the province, and was a prominent member of the school committee, hall society; Farmers ’ Union, the cemetery board, and the Union Sunday school from 1897 till he left that district to settle at Fraser Road in 1911. Later he was a member of the Taranaki provincial executive of the Farmers' Union and a director of the Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation. He took a live interest in the work of the Presbyterian Church throughout, and when he settled in Hawera was for several years an elder of St. John’s Church. . In public, as in private life, he was held in high repute and was altogether a man who did good work for the districts in which he passed so much of his life, being associated with South Taranaki from the days when farming was very strenuous and taking part in the wonderful development that has taken place during the past forty years.