OBITUARY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20969, 23 February 1938, Page 14

OBITUARY

MR THOMAS LINDSAY BUICK By Ihi seraph —Press Associa'iui> WELLINGTON, February 22. The death is announced of Mr Thomas Lindsay Buick, the well-known | journalist formerly a member of Parliament for Wairau, in his seventysecond year. The late Mr Thomas Lindsay Buick was born in Oamaru in May. 1866, his father being Mr J. W. Buick. He was educated at the Oamaru State School. He played Rugby for Marlborough and later in life he took an interest in bowling. He began his public career as a lecturer, and in 1890 entered the House of Representatives as member for Wairau. He was one of the original Labour Party and was selected by the Premier <Mr John Ballance) to act as organising secretary for the National Liberal Federation. He was re-elected for Wairau in 1893 and was whip in the Seddon admistration of that year. He took up journalism in 1897. when he became part proprietor of the Manawatu “Daily Standard” and in 1903 he became part proprietor of the “Dannevirke Advocate.” He was a member of the Marlborough Education Board in 1896. and represi ented Waipawa County on the Napier ! High School Board of Governors. In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. He was for a long term the representative of the Press Association in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. His publications include the following: “Old Marlborough, or the Story of the : Province” (1900): “Old Manawatu. or j the Wild Days of the West” (1903); j “An Old New Zealander, or the , Napoleon of the South” (1911); “The I Treaty of Waitangi” <1913): “New! Zealand's First War. or Hone Hcke’s i Rebellion” '1926): “Romance of the I Gramophone" (1927); “The French at I Akaroa. an Adventure in Colonisa- ) tion” (1928) “Wellington, the Growth ) of a Great Port” <1930); “The —t«rv • of the Moa” (1931).