CITY FATALITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24132, 26 November 1941, Page 10

CITY FATALITY

SIXTY-FOOT FALL DEATH OF BUSINESS MAN FORMER INSURANCE MANAGER Falling 60ft. down a light well from the fourth floor of Endetn's Building, Queen Street, at 11.45 yesterday morning, a well-known city business man was killed instantaneously. He was: — Mr. John Norman Lowther Edson, aged 40, land and 'estate agent, married, and residing at 10 Glenbrook Road, Bemuera. It is understood that Mr. Edson , walked to the fourth floor, but none of the business offices on the floor was visited. There were no witnesses of the fatality. An inquest will be opened this morning. Mr. Edson was a member of qn old Auckland family. His grandfather, Mr. John Edson, founder of a chemist's business in 1859, was for many years a director of the South British Insurance Company, Limited, a trustee of the Auckland Savings Bank, and a trustee of the Methodist Church of New Zealand. For many years Mr. Edson was on the Auckland staff of the South British Insurance Company, and resigned from the position of inspector m 1936, to become manager of the F.A.M.E. Insurance Company, Limited, from the F.A.M.E. Insurance Company at the end of last August Mr. Edson took control of a newlyformed firm of land and estate agen s. He retained an interest in the 1 .A.M.I;. Company by holding a chief agency through the" estate firm.