OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 9

OBITUARY

MR R. H. TURTON Mr Richmond Hanson Turton, who died at Greytown on Saturday last at the age of SS, was a barrister and solicitor, and had a brilliant legal career. The second sou of the late Wesley Turton, barrister and solicitor and Crown Prosecutor of Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, Mr Turton was bom at Queenstown in 1876 and was educated at the Southland Boys’ High School and the Otago Boys’ High School, and went on to Otago University, graduating as LL.B. in 1900. After some time spent in the offices of 'Mr Alan Holmes and Mr .1. F. M. Fraser (Crown solicitor), of Dunedin, Mr Turton joined his father in Queenstown during the dredging boom. He was at this time chairman of the Wak.itipu District Hospital Trustees and steward of the Afrowtown Racing Club. In 1907 Mr Turton was appointed a magistrate (the youngest ever appointed in New Zealand), acting in that capacity in Oamaru, - Greymonth, and Masterton. When’ the Great War broke out Mr Turton enlisted as a private, serving with the 12th Otago Mounted Rifles and 4th Otago Infantry for three years in Egypt, Gallipoli (up to the evacuation), and France. A keen sportsman, Mr Turton represented the Otago Boys’ High School and the Otago University at football and tennis, and, up to tbe time of his death, took a keen interest in golfing and angling.