BROTHERS’ FIRST MEETING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23590, 29 August 1938, Page 15

BROTHERS’ FIRST MEETING

NEVER SEEN EACH OTHER TIMARU FAMILY SEPARATED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. “So far as I know, my brother has never seen me, and I have certainly never seen him to my conscious knowledge,” said Dr Alan Tennent, brother of Mr L. C. Tennent, who was referred to in a Melbourne cablegram. This message stated that Mr L. C. Tennent, who was en route to New Zealand, would be meeting his brother for the first time. Dr Tennent explained that the reason why they had not met is that he believes he was not born when Mr L. C, Tennent, who is the eldest member of a family of five sons and three daughters, left for South Africa. Dr Tennent is the youngest of the sons. Dr Tennent, however, has met his brother’s wife, as she happened to be in England when Dr Tennent was there 11 years ago. Mr L. C. Tennent has not been back to New Zealand since he left Timaru, where the Tennent family was then living, to go to the Boer War. Mr L. C. Tennent was later joined in South Africa by two other brothers, Mr H. D. Tennent, now of Dunedin, and Mr H. C. Tennent, now of Honolulu. The other brother is Mr K. B. Tennent, of Auckland

The cablegram referred to stated: Mr L. C. Tennent, who left New Zealand in 1900 for the Boer War, has returned from Africa on the Norwegian ship Templar on his way to visit his brother, Dr Alan Tennent, of Wellington, whom he has never seen. He is travelling to New Zealand by the Maunganui. He said that after the Boer War he became a tourist guide in the African hinterland and later was mining and farming, then he went to the Great War. He was now secretary of a shipping company at Dar-es-Salaam (Tanganyika).