LAMARTINE DWAN

NZ Truth, Issue 1043, 21 November 1925, Page 6

LAMARTINE DWAN

WHEN business brains and good natures were being dished out, Lamartine Dwan, of Wellington, must have had a place right m the front rank, for he received a fair share of both.

"Lam," by which name he is mostly known to his many acquaintances, was a very young person when he arrived i» God's Own, having just celebrated his lirst birthday. It is- a peculiar coincidence that Lam Dwan and the secretary of the Dunedin Exhibition (H. R.

Spence) were both born m Inglewood (Victoria), both left that place for New Zealand at the mature age of a year or thereabouts, and both find biographical notice on this page to-day.

Talking about; lnglewood, it may be added that the Dwans lived next door to that .famous Cecil who afterwards became -Lord Salisbury and Prime. Minister of England, but who was then' clad m moleskin strides, digging, Mother Earth m the hope of locating some Victorian gold nuggets.

Another neighbor of the Dwan family m that little home town of Inglewood was a young man, then struggling with a partner m a small business. Here, too. was a budding Premier, for the young man was Mr. (afterwards Sir) Julius Yogel, father of New Zealand's Public Works policy.

The subject of this sketch is a very active man to-day. He has just that knack of getting- the best out of life. May he. long continue to carry on with the good work.