Brothers Who Have Never Met

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 204, 30 August 1938, Page 10

Brothers Who Have Never Met

|MR LEONARD TENNENT RETURNING TO DOMINION. MELBOURNE, Aug. 27. A former New Zealander, Mr L. C. Tennent, who left the Dominion 1n 1900 for the Boer War, returned from Africa in the Norwegian ship Templar to-day on his way to visit his brothers, including Dr. Alan Tennent, of Wellington, whom ho has never seen. Mr Tennent said that after the Boer War he became a tourist guide on tho African Hinterland and later was miniug and farming. Then the Great War broke out. He is now secretary of a shipping company at Dar cs-f?alaam. WELLINGTON, Sunday. “As far as I know my brother has never seen me and I have certainly never seen him to my conscious know ledge," said Dr. Alan Tennent, brother of Mr L. C. Tennent, referred to in the Melbourne cablegram. Dr. Tennent explained that the reason why they had not met was that he believes he was not born when his brother, who is the eldest member of a family of five sons and three daughters of Mr and Mrs R. C. Tennent, of Woodville, left for South Africa. Dr. Tennent is the youngest of the sons. He says he has met his brother’? wife, as she happened to be in England when he was there 11 years ago. Mr L. C. Tennent has not been back to New Zealand since he left Timaru, whero the Tennent family was then living, to go to the Boer War. He was joined in South Africa later by two other brothers, Messrs H. D. Tennent. now of Dunedin, and H. C. Tennent, now of Honolulu. The other brother is Mr K. B. Tennant, of Auckland.