OBITUARY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21088, 14 July 1938, Page 9

OBITUARY

MR THOMAS KINROSS Mr Thomas Kinross died at his residence, Woodlands Road, Timaru, on Sunday, at the age of 78. Born in Perthshire, Scotland, Mr Kinross was brought up to farming, and after serving two years in an analytical laboratory in Sterling, was tor 10 years on his father’s farm to Ktocardinshire. In 1885 he emigrated to New Zealand and after a short period in Dunedin removed to South Canterbury where he was overseer on the Pareora estate until that property was sold. In 1899 he married Miss Emily Berry, who predeceased him last year, and shortly after his marriage he took up a farm of 300 acres at Southburn, from which he retired In 1919 to reside in Timaru. He was for a number of years a member of the Waimate County Council and a director of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association. As a Forester he was a member of Court Progress, St. Andrews, in which he had passed through the various chairs, and as a Freemason he was an early initiate of Lodge Caledonia, E.C., Timaru. Southburn residents will remember his activity as a member of the Patriotic Committee in that district during the war years, while in Timaru his geniality made him for many years a very popular member of the Kia Toa Bowling Club.

MR FRANK CLARKE, M.P. British Official Wireless RUGBY, July 12. The death is announced of Mr Frank Clarke, Conservative member of Parliament, for Dartford.