EX-NEW ZEALANDER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23128, 29 August 1938, Page 10

EX-NEW ZEALANDER

RETURNING TO DOMINION BROTHERS WHO NEVER MET MELBOURNE, August 27 A former New Zealander, Mr. L. C. •JTennent, who left the Dominion in 1900 for the Boer War, returned from Africa in tho Norwegian ship Templar to-day on his way to visit his brothers, including Dr. Alan Tennent, of Wellington, .whom he has never seen. Mr. Tennent said that after tho Boer • jWar hp became a tourist guide on the L'African Hinterland and later was • mining and fanning. Then tho Great .War broko out. Ho is now secretary of • a shipping company at Dar-es-Salaam.

DETAILS OF FAMILY [ONE BROTHER IN AUCKLAND £by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON. Sunday "As far as I know my brother has never seen mo and I have certainly riover seen him to my conscious knowledge," said Dr. Alan Tenncnt, brother of Mr. L. C. Tennent, referred to in the Melbourne cablegram. Dr. Tennent explained that tho reason why they had not met was that ho believes he was not born when his brother, who is the eldest member of a family of five sons and three daughters, loft for South Africa. «

Dr- Tennent is the .youngest of the i sons. Ho says he has met his brother's : wife, as she happened to be in England • when ho was there 11 years ago. Mr. L. C. Tennent has not been back to Now Zealand since ho left Timaru, .where tho Tennent family was then living, to go +o tho Boer War. Ho was joined in_Hguth Africa later by two other brothers, Messrs. H. D. Tennent, now of alidlH. C. Tennent. ••.How of Honolulu. ' Tho other brother is Mr. K. B. iTennentj, of Auckland.