WRITE YOUR OWN OBITUARY NOTICE

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 9, 7 August 1943, Page 2

WRITE YOUR OWN OBITUARY NOTICE

NO. 5

The United South Island Sates of New Zee?land, yesterday mourned the passing cf a figure whom the passing years had mellowed into a kindly and benevolent old gentleman, steeped in the traditions of the Far South©

The demise of Percy Kenna recalled to mind the stirring years of his heyday, when the foundations of the fabled Kenna fortune were being well and truly laid.

His earlier life was inconspicuous? as an Orderly Room Clerk in the Pacific War (1941<JL945) the business of the section was conducted in the usual balled-up Army manner© Returning to civil life, he took up metallurgy, and became skilled at recognising whether a platinum blonde represented diamond rocks, or merely workable, (h)ore,. Turning his attention to psychology, he became a psychiatrist and was able to tell whether children had more fun in childhood than adults had in adultery©

These pursuits failing to give Wm mental stimulation, he married a sob st ex' who, his friends related with gusto?© "Gits o n his knee and bawls, making it very hard for him% After the divorce, ho began to play an important part in local politics, and was elected Aiderman of the village ofDunedin, which, after a slow decline over the years, was 'beginning to build up a tourist trade in Hokanul whisky and haggis© Other organisations which remain a monument to his name include the Anti-Rubber-Heel League (Dunedin folks claimed they gave too much)? Rice Laundry Ltd (for cleaning rice re-used at weddings) and g. Company selling bottles of fresh air for bicycle tyres-,

Marrying, for the second time, a Hawkes Bay (North Island Dependency) girl, he enthusiastically took up hog-raising - and finished up with five daughters and four sons, who enjoy a precarious existence as a touring >-ring circus©

We extend our sympathy to his'widow and family on the loss of a substantial citizen (he weighed 16 stone)©