OBITUARY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 76, 11 August 1927, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR JAMES McKJANON. PROMINENT NORTH AUCKLAND RESIDENT. i Per Press Association, r WHANOAREI. This Day. Mr James McKinnon, whose death l q announced from Wellington today. ly'fts nrominenttv associated with local hod ? °s im this district for many years. Tn 1883 he was appointed clerk of he first, road hoard, followin'? which .he became clerk of tho f-a'in*- fo,jn;‘yß, aijd heldithat office for 37 years. , this' hej.Wi wes also town ; clerk of the borough for 18 vflflrs. h« held nosif.ityjva a.<r rderk of. f.ho Hikurangi and Onerah? town hoards. Tn ipo . ,i«f>on.qpfl was ennointed

and treasufer of iho Whangorel Harbour Board and held that , until . T '<m last, vtifii ho retired ,isiw|np. to falling hnolth. Ho was y.lfio aecrntavv of tho Hie'h School ~Poa.ird of Doirortiors fgom 190.3 till cFo.sßßic T>d*e 1R47, E.C.. ho hold (inenthp- of tho District, Brond I-orion, .. Enel and. end a life member of the -local Lod"e.

v? ,,Ho wes t>e finef secretary of the JWhangarei Bowling Club. and was -al nrominent rnemher of the Presbyterian 'Church. being an elder and rclerk of session.