OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24205, 25 January 1940, Page 10

OBITUARY

MR DAVID DALTON (Special to Daily Times) WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. The death occurred yesterday of MiDavid Dalton, who, though he had lived in retirement for some years past, was well known in business and sporting circles in Wellington. He was 68 years old. Mr Dalton's parents were among the earliest settlers in the Auckland district, and he was born at Pukekohe, where his parents had a farm. As a young man he joined the New Zealand Permanent Artillery at Wellington and was transferred to Lyttelton, where he spent four years. He then joined the Prisons service, spending three years in Dunedin. and four in Wellington before resigning to take up a position with Wellington's first electric tramway service. He became president of the Tramway Union and filled that office until he resigned from the service in 1911 to take over the licence of Barrett's Hotel, which he held until 1921, when he went to Hastie's Hotel in Feilding.. He retired in 1924. During the war years particularly Mr Dalton became very well known in Wellington. He had a wide range of sporting interests and was president of the Old Star Association Football Club and a life member of the Wellington Rugby Union. He was one of those who assisted in the acquisition of Athletic Park, and he also helped the Island Bay Bowling Club in its early days. He was a member of the Old Comrades' Association. In 1900 Mr Dalton married Miss M. A. E. O'Brien, eldest daughter of Captain P. O'Brien, of Lyttelton, a well-known figure in the New Zealand coastal trade, and she survives him.