OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 25334, 10 April 1944, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR C. M. TURRELL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 9. Tlie death occurred at his residence in Wellington yesterday of Mr Charles Murray Turrell, general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company j and chairman of directors of the i New Zealnad board. Mr Turrell pos- . sessed a vital personality and was widely known and greatly respected in . shipping circles. He enjoyed perfect health until June last, when he suffered a general breakdown, and although he made a temporary recovery his health continued to decline. With 58 years in its service, Mr Turrell had one of the longest records of any official of the New Zealand Shipping Company. His long period of continuous service with one company is believed to be unequalled in the Dominion. Possible few men in the Empire had a logger association with shipping; certainly none with a longer or wider experience in the New Zealand shipping trade. ' _ Mr Turrell was born at Leithfield in 1868 and entered the New Zealand Shipping Company’s office at Christchurch in October 1885. He served in various branches and in 1914 was appointed acting manager at Auckland. After he became local manager of the company at Wellington in 1919 he also assumed the additional duty of traffic manager for New Zealand. He made special visits on the company s behalf to Fiji in 1901, South Africa in 1902, America in 1926 and visited Britain in 1926, 1934 and 1937. He was appointed Dominion superintendent in' 1932. This designation was changed to general manager in 1933 when Mr Turrell was also appointed a director on the New Zealand board. He reached the peak of his career in 1942 when he succeeded the late Sir Robert Anderson as chairman of directors on the New Zealand board and representative in New Zealand of the London board of directors. His varied interests included 25 years’ membership of the Wellington Harbour Board, including two periods as chairman, 21 years as a member of the Overseas Shipowners’ Allotment Committee, and 10 years on the National Disputes Committee dealing with waterside labour. He represented the employers on the Industrial Emergency Council, and was a member of the Wellington Harbour Board and the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum boards trustees. He was also president of the Overseas Seamen’s Gift Committee. Mr Turrell was a keen sportsman throughout his life and a steward of the Wellington Racing Club since 1935. mr j. McChesney The death has occurred at South Invercargill of Mr John McChesney at the age of 91.' He was bom at New Dairy, Ayrshire/Scotland, and came to New Zealand with his parents in the ship Seville in 1864. He was educated in Invercargill and then began learning the business of nurseryman. He went to South Invercargill about 60 years ago and was one of the first to take up residence in the Seaward Bush settlement. He was the last surviving member of the deputation which went to Bluff to request the late Sir Joseph Ward to stand for Parliament. He was the first chairman of the Tisbury school committee, was a sergeant in the Invercargill Rifles, which he joined in 1869, and a petty officer in the Invercargill section of the Bluff Naval Volunteers in 1886. In 1885 he married a daughter of the late Mr W. Hogan, of Invercargill. His wife died about 13 years ago. Mr McChesney’s nursery business was taken over by his son, , Mr William McChesney, about 20 years ago, though Mr McChesney, sen., retired from active work only seven or eight years ago. In the early days he was prominent in rifle shooting and competed all over New Zealand with considerable success. He had been a Justice of the Peace for over 50 years. He is survived by his son, Mr William McChesney, South Invercargill.

MR JAMES MATHIESON The death has occurred of Mr James Mathieson. He was born in 1874 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand with his parents when he was nine years of age. His father bought a farm at Forest Hill and he was educated there and at Winton. After leaving school Mr Mathieson worked for farmers in many parts of Southland, but when the Merrivale block was put on the market he secured a section at Orawia. After spending a few years there he took up a farm at Aparima and later he moved to Isla Bank. He married Miss M. Hannah, of Otautau, and when she died in 1930 he went to Wallacetown, where he lived until the time of his death. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs F. L. Malcolm, of Wallacetown. MR DAVID IRVINE Mr David Irvine, whose death is reported from Napier, was well known in , the Wyndham district, where he spent the greater part of his life. Born 46 years ago, he was the. second son of the late Mr and Mrs David Irvine, well known Wyndham settlers, and after finishing his education at the local school he secured employment in the Wyndham branch of the drapery firm of W. Lewis and Company, with whom he remained until the firm ceased busi- ’ ness. He later worked at his trade in Invercargill, and a few years ago moved to the North Island, where he \con- ' ducted a general store in a country centre near Napier. He is survived ' by his wife and a young family. MR T. R. MOSS Mr Thomas Richard Moss, who died recently, was bom'at Winchester, South Canterbury, 66 years ago. He was engaged in farming until 1900, when he enlisted in the 3rd New Zealand Con- ; tingent for the South African War. On his return to New Zealand he settled at ; Ohai, where he was engaged in flaxmilling. There he found what is now known as the Mossbank coalfield. He later purchased a holding at Morton Mains which he farmed until three years ago when he retired and took up resi- . dence in Invercargill. As a young ,man Mr Moss was interested in Rugby , football, fishing and duck-shooting. He served on the Ohai, Morton Mains and Waituna school committees, and was a deacon and also treasurer of the Morton , Mains Presbyterian Church. He was chairman of directors of the Morton Mains dairy factory. He is survived by ’ his wife, a son, Mr Thomas Moss, of ; Invercargill, and three daughters, Mrs J. Brown (Morton Mains), Mrs Hunter ' Dunlop (Pine Bush), and Mrs E. Winter ■ (Wyndham).