OBITUARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8036, 7 January 1905, Page 5

OBITUARY.

Mr B. Hallenstein.

Mr E. G. Frost, manager of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, received a telegram yesterday intimating that Mr Bendix Hallenstein, founder of the business, had died that day at Dunedin. In consequence of this the branch was closed to-day. An Association telegram received from Dunedin last night states that the late Mr Hallenstein, who was Chairman of Directors of the Drapery Importing Company, came from Victoria in the days of the gold rush. After being in business at Invercargill and Queenstown, he went to Dunedin and started the New Zealand Clothing Factory; and Was, with.his brothers, largely connected with : nifitilerous enterprises.' Deceased, who wa&Jß.bout 70 years of age, had been for some German Consul at Dunedin.—We well remember Mr Hallenstein away back in the seventies, when, full of energy and vigour, he was establishing branches at Wanganui and elsewhere. He was a most straightforward business man in all his dealings, full of enterprise, proverbially progressive, and liberal withal.' He has lived a life of strenuous application to business, and the ventures with which he has been associated have been uniformly"' attended with success. Few men of his day and generation had a clearer' and more comprehensive grasp of commercial matters, or held more correct views with regard to the possibilities and limitations of a district, than the late Mr Hallenstein, whose death will leave a distinct blank among mercantile circles in Australasia.