OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22900, 1 December 1937, Page 16

OBITUARY

MR. J. E. JENKINSON [BV TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Tuesday A former member of the Legislative Council, Mr. J. E. Jcnkinson, who was a well-known figure in the Labour movement from 1882 to 1914, lias died in Wellington at the age of 79 years. Mr. Jenkinson was born in Dunedin and was apprenticed to the boilermaking and iron shipbuilding trade. He became a member of tho first trade union formed in the 'South Island, tho Dunedin Boilermakers' Union, started in 1882, and in the same year was elected its president. In the following year ho was deputed to foriii branches of the society in other centres and also represented the New Zealand unions at a conference in Sydney with tho New South Wales boilcrmakers for tho formation of an Australian and Now Zealand federation. A member of tho committee which drew up tho original rules of the Canterbury Trades Council, Mr. Jenkinson also inaugurated the first technical classes instituted under the auspices of the Christchurch trades unions, lie also assisted to form tho rules of tho Kailway Servants' Union, and for some years was treasurer of the Labour Day celebration committee in Christchurch and president of the Tailorcsses' Union. . In 1892 Mr. Jenkinson was appointed to the Legislative Council and finally retired in 191-1. MRS. P. BLYTHE The death has occurred of Mrs. Priscilla Blytlie, aged 79, a descendant of one of the early pioneering families settling in the West Taniaki district. Mrs. Blytlie, who. was born at West Taniaki, was a daughter of the Into Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Churches, who arrived in Now Zealand on the ship St. George and settled near St. John's College, and later moved to Point England. She was ono of a family of 16 children. Her marriage to the late Mr. James Blytlie, of Papatoetoe, was tho first to bo celebrated in the Church of England at Ellerslie. Sho and her husband lived for about 50 years in tho Papatoetoe district, where Mr, Blythe died about 11 years ago. Sho is survived by two sons and three daughters. MRS. L. WURLEIN [from our own correspondent] CAMBRIDGE. Tuesday Tho death lias occurred at the Waikato Hospital of Mrs. Louise Wurlein, aged 65, of Taotaoroa. Tho late Mrs, Wurlein was born at Burg, Germany, and was educated and married there. She came to Now Zealand with her family in 1913. After farming at Tahuna for a number of years tho family came to Cambridge 12 years ago. Tho late Mrs. Wurlein is survived by her husband, two sons and ono daughter. MRS. MARION TUTCJHEN [by TELKCRAPII —OWN correspondent] TAURANGA, Tuesday Tho death has occurred of Mrs. Marion S. Tutphen, who had boon a resident of this district for about 40 years. Mrs. Tutehen, who was in her 70tli year, was born in Wellington, and prior to coming to Tauranga she lived in Gisborne and the Waikato. Hor husband, Mr. .Josiah Tutclien, died in Tauranga 26 years ago. She is survived by six sons and four daughters.