MR CUNINCHAN SMITH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6127, 14 March 1898, Page 2

MR CUNINCHAN SMITH.

MR CUNINGHAM SMITH. The late Mr W. Cuningham Smith was (saya the Otago Daily Times), the son of a member of the firm of Lewis, Potter and Co., of Glasgow, and came to Otago about eighteen years ago. He was at first employed on Btations-that are now the property of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, but subsequently, with two partners, took up the Haldon run, in the Mackenzie Country, and worked it for about ten or twelve years, when they sold the run and dissolved partnership. Mr Smith was then employed by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, and took charge of the Dunedin office. Next he became manager in Dunedin for the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, and, retiring from this position in 1894, accepted the position of manager of the Southland Frozen Meat Company, this involving his departure for Invercargill. Prior to his leaving Dunedin he was presented by the merchants and others with a substantial purse of sovereigns as a token of their esteem. He had held the office of president, and also that of treasurer, of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society just before his removal from Dunedin, and it was largely owing to his energy, that the Society was placed in its present satisfactory position. He was next offered a superior appointment by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, to go to London to take charge of the company's produce department. To fulfil this engagement Mr Smith left Dunedin on Dec. 24, 1896. He was not then in the best of health, and for some time past it had been known in the colony that his health was very unsatisfactory. He was about fiftyfive or fifty-six years of ap,e, and was much esteemed by members of the commercial community.