OBITUARY

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3419, 13 February 1936, Page 4

OBITUARY

MR ALEXANDER BEANGE FORMER FACTORY MANAGER AT HAUTAPU The death lias occurred at Morrinsville of Mr Alexander Beange, aged 69 years, who for many years was a dairy factory manager in the Waikato. From 1898 to 1901 Mr Beange was manager of the Tauwhare cheese factory, which had been established by the late Mr Richard Reynolds; and from 1901 to 1915 he was manager of the Hautapu factory, of which the late Mr George Watt was managing partner at first, and which later became the present Cambridge Cooperative Dairy Company, Ltd. When Mr Beange resigned to go to the war in 1915 he was presented with an illuminated address from the shareholders of the Cambridge company. Born at Mosgiel, Otago, Mr Beange joined the stair of the Wyndham dairy factory in 1890, and after experience in Southland was for a time associated with a dairy factory at Stratford before coming to the Waikato. While manager at Cambridge he had an outstanding record as a prize-winner at dairy shows all over the Dominion, and did much to put Cambridge, and the Waikato generally, on the map as a good dairying district. Mr Beange was past military age when the war broke out, but he enlisted and served in France in the Rifle Brigade for two years: In 1919 he went to Morrinsville and conducted the Nottingham Castle Hotel for eight or nine years. In recent years he has been living in retirement, and had not enjoyed good health. He was a ..member of the Morrinsville Returned Soldiers’ Association.

He is survived by his wife, two sons (Messrs T. Benge, of Auckland, and A. Beange, of Hamilton), and three daughters (Mrs J. Anderton and Mrs S. Bain, of Morrinsville, and Sister'Christine, of Lower Ilutt).