DEATH OF MR T. C. MORRIS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16542, 28 September 1921, Page 7

DEATH OF MR T. C. MORRIS.

LONG RECORD OF SERVICE Mr Thomas Olieal Norris, or Wainoni, for many years secretary of the Charitable Aid. Board, and later of the Hospital Board, died yesterday at the age of 73. On account of tailing health he resigned his position in 1912. The late Mr Norris was born in Sussex, his lather being the lat-e Mr Thomas Norris, headmaster of the Buckfield Grammar School. Ho was educated at St Saviour's, Shoreham (now Ardingley College), and in his early career took a keen interest in cricketAfter pursuing a commercial life in London, he left with his family for New Zealand in 1879. Before settling in Christchurch he was for a time in the stock and auctioneering business in North Canterbury. He was for many years a member of the Diooesan Synod, representing Oxford and later New Brighton, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Clergy Pension Trust Board for several years. He was in earlier days a. sidesman of the CliristCuurch Cathedral, and was Diocesan Lay reader for more than thirty years He became secretary of the Charitable Aid Board in 1885. and took over the secretaryship of the Hospital Board as well when the two boards were amalgamated. The late Airs Norris predeceased him three years ago. There was a family of eight daughters and seven sons. A son and daughter died within two days of each other. There are three surviving sons, Air E. T. Norris. M.A. (Registrar of the New Zealand University, Wellington), Air .T. 15. Norris (secretary N.Z. Trotting Association) and the Rev A. H. Norris, M.A. (Vicar of Temuka and Winchester), who before his ordination served in the South African War. The youngest son, Oswald Mark, who had ooen farming in Hawke’s Bay, fell on Gallipoli Hills on St Mark’s Day, April 25, 1915 (Anasac landing). The married daughters are Airs Stephen Menzies (Hawke’s Bay). Airs Harold Buck land (Wainui, Bank’s Peninsula), and Airs Herbert Price (Dunedin). At to-day’s meeting of the Hospital Board, a motion was carried placing on record appreciation of Air Norris’s valuable services and expressing sympathy JVrith his relatives- v