OBITUARY

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21096, 24 April 1940, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR W. DINEEN (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday The death has occurred of Mr W. Dineen, aged 63, superintendent of the New Plymouth gaol, after nearly 40 years of prison administration service. Born at Oamaru, Mr Dineen served through the Boer War, and entered the Prisons Department in 1902. He was appointed to New Plymouth in 1924.

MR A. S. PATERSON

PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) DUNEDIN, Tuesday The death occurred this morning of Mr Alexander Stronach Paterson, aged 90, one of the best known and most successful of Dunedin business men. Born in 1849, Mr Paterson received most of his education in Ireland, and he was 17 years of age when he came to Otago. He was still a young man when he became a salesman for Russell, Ritchie and Company, under Mr J. M. Ritchie. It was out of that firm that the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, was formed, and Mr Paterson continued the connection, first as a salesman and then as a local manager. In 1886 Mr Paterson began business on his own account. He took a prominent part in the initiation of the frozen meat industry, and was in the service of the National Mortgage and Agency Company when it loaded the ship Dunedin with the first meat cargo from Port Chalmers in 1882. He was a former president of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce and was made a life member in 1924. Some years ago, Mr Paterson made a gift to the city of a large organ for the new Town Hall, and his private benefactions covered a wide range. A staunch Presbyterian, he was a generous supporter of Knox College, and he supplied the library of that institution with modern books and also with suitable bookcases. The A. S. Paterson library is probably the most complete and valuable of its kind in New Zealand, comprising about 4000 volumes. Mr Parterson married Miss Jean Forsyth, who belonged to a West Coast family. There were four children. The sons are Mr John Rutherford Paterson, of Dunedin, and Mr Stronach Paterson, of Welligton.