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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 245, 14 September 1938, Page 16

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BOER WAR VETERAN. A rousing reception was given by South African War veterans at Wellington to one of their number. Mr L. C. Tennent, who is on a visit from South Africa to his brother. Dr. Alan Tennent, of Wellington. Mr Tennent left New Zealand for the Boer war with the 4th Contingent, returned to the Dominion, and subsequently sailed again for South Africa with the 10th Contingent. After the war he remained in South Africa, and this is the first j time he has been back to New Zealand since then. By his comrades he is referred to as the last man to return. Captain J. J. Clark, president of the South African Veterans’ Association, presided and welcomed Mr Tennent. who was accompanied by Dr. Alan Tennent, and Mr L. D. Cohen. On behalf of the association Captain Clark presented Mr Tennent with a handsome perpetual calendar set in kauri and with the association’s badge on either side of it. In thanking the gathering for the honour paid him and for the presentation, Mr Tennent gave a resume of his career after taking his discharge in South Africa. He mentioned that when he was proprietor of the Spion Kop Hostel he had the pleasure, at the request of the Natal Government, of conducting the late Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary at the time of the South African War, over the Spion Kop battlefield. Mr Chamberlain remarked to him that he had had the pleasure of meeting a New Zealander on London Bridge but he had not thought of meeting another New Zealand at Spion Kop. The- health of Mr Tennent was enthusiastically toasted with musical honours.