CRIMEAN VETERAN DECEASED

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 191, 8 May 1920, Page 7

CRIMEAN VETERAN DECEASED

By Telegraph—Press. Association. Auckland, Jla.r 7. ; A Crimean and Maori ...vac . veteran • - narnr.d Jolin Burns died to : day, aped 88 ; years. Deceased leaves two sons ai,d • two daughters, including Mrs. Charlton, •] .of Wellington. % ;

Mr. Thomas Manson, -whose death was j recorded yesterday, was'a'very old nnd j esteemed resident of Die Man.-iwaln dis-. \ trict. He originally came from Scotland, , and went from there to Canada with his j brother to set up a timber milling plant. j When nuite a young man, however, be ! came o.ut to the Dominion and settled ) in .Palmerston North, where for some i years ho followed the calling of n builder j and contractor. Anions t.lic'huildings ho -j erected were tlio Pnlmorston North Hail- •] wav Station, the first local Presbyterian i Church and the Foxton Railway Station. .1 Later lie establis!i«l and carried on for j ten years the first drapery establishment .■] in Pnlmcrslon North. When' he retired j from the drapery business he mado a ' . ; j trip to tho Old Country. On returning ] ho took up sheep farming and was- . successful at it; but he gave, this up ■ aboii't twenty: years'ago, and again eamo .- •> into, town and established the hardware ' ■ business of-Mansoa and Bany Limited, j of which ho acted as general manager ; until advancing age made it■ necessary for | him to retire. He bad been in indifferent ! health for some time before hfe death. , I