OBITUARY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3831, 9 November 1936, Page 4

OBITUARY

MR T. P. WING. We regret to have to chronicle the death, in a private hopsital in Te Awamutu, of Mr Thomas Percival Wing, one of Te Awamutu’s most highly-respected residents. Deceased, who was 65 years of age, was a member of one of Auckland’s oldest families, and came to Te Awamutu about sixteen years ago to join the office staff of Te Awamutu Electric Power Board as accountant. Later he relinquished that position, but continued as bookkeeper, and only recently he reached the retiring age, but it was arranged that he should continue on the staff for a further six months as the whole staff was working at high pressure to overtake a rush of work. However, he had occasion a week or so ago to enter a private hospital for what was believed to be a minor operation, and he went through it satisfactorily, only to fail to make the expected improvement thereafter, and despite the best of attention he died on Saturday. The late Mr Wing was a most genial, unassuming, and conscientious man, well liked by everyone with whom he came in contact, and his passing will be deeply regretted. To his bereaved widow and son (Mr Harry Wing, of Frontier Road) will be extended sincere sympathy. The funeral took place yesterday, interment being at Te Awamutu cemetery. The late Mr Wing had a varied career. Born at Onc-hunga (where his father was signalmaster, and who was on duty when H.M;.S. Orpheus was wrecked on the Manakau Bar), he accompanied his parents as a youth to Queenstown, assisting his father in the inauguration of the Lake steamer service there. Later he joined the Bank of. New Zealand, and continued in the service for several years. Then he resigned to become a member of thei firm of the Mountain Rimu Timber Co. (operating at Mamaku, but conducted from Hamilton), and afterwards joined the staff of the Grand Junction Goldmining Co. at Waihi. Severing his connection with that firm he made Auckland his headquarters for some time, following his profession of accountancy, until he came, to Te Awamutu to join the Electric Power Board staff. He was an ardent horticulturist, and a. great lover of children. It was quite a common thing to see him, hailed by small boys in the street, and invariably he answered them with a few cheerful words and a characteristic smile. He will be missed in this community.