OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23974, 15 June 1943, Page 6

OBITUARY

DR. A. H. TOVEY “ The Press.” Special Service AUCKLAND, June 14. The death has occurred in Tauranga of Dr„ Arthur Hamilton Tovey. A son of Colonel Hamilton Tovey, R.E., of London, Dr. Tovey came to New Zealand in 1909 and practised at Kaponga, Taranaki, until the outbreak of the last war. He then returned with his wife and family to England, where he joined the R.A.M.C., and served in. a hospital ship. He contracted malaria at Gallipoli and was invalided to England. On his recovery, Dr. Tovey transferred to the New Zealand Medical Corps and served at Brockenhurst Hospital until the end of the war, when he returned to New Zealand. He practised in Tauranga until 1925 and was then appointed medical officer of Samoa, a position he held for three years. Later he was medical officer at Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs, His health broke down in 1937 and he returned to Tauranga, where he lived until his death. Dr. Tovey is survived by his wife and two children. Lieutenant W. R. Tovey, of the Royal New Zealand Navy, and Mrs N. H. Allen, who is serving with the Women’s Royal Naval Training Service in England with the rank of second officer. Another son, Private D. H. Tovey, lost his life in the Middle East. Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief the Nore, is a brother.

MR T, MACLENNAN

AUCKLAND, June 14. The death has occurred of Mr Telford MacLennan, formerly district elec, trical engineer at Hamilton for 18 years, at the age of 57. Mr MacLennan was born at Tapanui and educated at the Otago Boys’ 1 High School and Canterbury University College, where he graduated bachelor of engineering. Before the last war he served with the Westinghouse Electrical Company in the United States and Canada for six years, returning to New Zealand in 1913.

Mr MacLennan was then employed on the construction of the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric works and was later connected with the Horahora and Arapuni schemes. He was appointed district electrical engineer for the Waidcato in 1920, and retired to live in Auckland in 1938. The originator in New Zealand of the Federal Union movement, he wrote extensively on the subject. He served in the last war and won the Military Medal. Mr MacLennan is survived by three sisters and two brothers.

MR H. G. WARREN

The death has occurred of Mr Henry George Warren of Te Awanga, a well-known figure throughout Hawke’s Bay, At the time of his retirement from business affairs in 1925 Mr Warren was general manager of Nelson’s (N.Z.) Ltd., at Tomoana. Mr Warren, who was born at Hampstead, London, was 82 years of age. He was educated at the Palace School, Enfield, and King’s College, London, and took a particularly keen interest in cricket, bowls, and golf. He was first married, in 1887, to Miss Alice Thompson, of Canterbury, who died in 1892. He was married again in 1899 to Miss Katherine Hardy. Mr Warren joined the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1878, arriving in New Zealand three years later with Mr Nelson as a cadet to Nelson Bros, and Wiliiams at Tomoana, joining their countinghouse. He joined Nelson Bros., Ltd., in 1883 as a clerk and rose progressively as accountant, secretary, and manager. From 1920 until five years later, when he retired, he filled the position of general manager of Nelson’s (N.Z.), Ltd.