OBITUARY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21983, 7 June 1941, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR P. MCSKIMMING (P.A.) DUNEDIN, June 6. The death occurred to-night of Mr Peter McSkimming, who represented Clutha in the House of Representatives from 1931 to 1935, when he retired. Mr McSkimming was a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, having been born in the parish of Dreghorn. not far from the town of Kilmarnock. Arriv-

ing as a lad with his parents in Otago in 1878, he received his education at Waitahuna Gully, Waitahuna, Lawrence, and finally at Stirling School. After a period of service at the brick and pipe works, Benhar, then owned oy Mr John Nelson, Mr McSkimming and his father took over the colliery and pipe works and established the business now known as McSkimming and Son. Ltd. Under Mr McSkimming’s leadership the industry developed in many directions. Mr McSkimming was an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Stirling and had always taken an active part in all the social activities of the district. Besides the business at Benhar and its various extensions, Mr McSkimming had engaged in many other commercial enterprises, Including farming. He was chairman of directors of the South Otago Freezing Company, the Kaitangata Coal Company and the South Otago Starr-Bowkett Society and was a director in A. and T. Burt, Ltd., the Bruce Woollen Company, the Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association and the Dominion Fertiliser Company. He was a keen believer in the development of the Dominion’s own resources.