PERSONAL

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Hon. Hr. Justice Blair is to preside at the sitting of the Supreme Court which is to commence in Palmerston North next week.

Mr. A. Just, of College Street, who was recently obliged to enter hospital for treatment, is now making good progress toward recovery.

Hr. T. R. Lee*, of Palmerston North, vfho has been appointed a member of the recently established Rehabilitation Council, was congratulated last evening by the Automobile Association (Manawatu) of the executive of which organisation Hr. Lees is also a member.

Mr. W. K. Morton, of Silvcrhope, who was killed on a railway bridge near his home on Saturday morning, was a prominent breeder of Romney Marsh sheep and Hereford cattle, and was a vice-president of both the Dominion societies connected with these breeds. Mrs. Morton was visiting Wellington at the time of the accident and her only daughter, Miss Mary Morton, who is a nurse at New Plymouth, was at home on holiday. A large and representative body of mourners attended the funeral held at Hunterville. The pall bearers were Messrs. W. H. Cox (Wanganui), E. W. Matthews (Masterton), L. K. Bull and K. McK. Duncan (Hunterville), lan Morton (Ran’giwahia) and H. Voss (Longburn).

The death occurred of Mr. David Tennent, J.P., one of the best known and oldest sawmilling executives on the West Coast, at the age of 72, says a Greymouth report. A native of Motherwell, Scotland, he was educated at Gartsherrie Academy. He came to New Zealand by the ship Embleton, landing at Port Chalmers in 1883. He afterwards removed to Brunner, where after two years of storekeeping he became manager of a firm of sawmillers. He later joined another firm acting as manager until 1904, when he bought out the Greymouth Sash and Door Company. Subsequently Mr. Tennent became managing-director of a new firm covering an amalgamation. As a Freemason, Mr. Tennent was a pasmaster of Lodge Greymouth. For many years he took a keen interest in civic affairs and was a member of the Greymouth Borough Council, and the Greymouth Harbour Board, and of the Grey Electric Power Board in its earlier stages. He presided over the Sawmillers’ Association for a number of years. He was an active member of St. John’s Presbyterian Church. Besides his wife, who was a daughter of Mr. William Blair, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. H. Hooper and Miss E. K. Tennent, Greymouth, and one son, Mr. W. Blair Tennent, Palmerston North. Another Ison was killed in. the Great War.