OBITUARY
SIR WALTER KENNAWAY. London, August 26. Sir Walter Kennawav is dead, aged 85. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. rsir Waller Kennaway, who was born in England in 1835. and arrived i.o New Zealand in 1.85;), was secretary to tho High Commissioner for New Zealand in London from 1874 to 1909, and had lived •in London since (lien. 110 was a member of the Provincial Council of Canterbury - from ISfiS to 1871. While Secretary for Public Works, the construction of tho first railways under Sir Julius Voxel's Public Works scheme came under his charge. He was a member of tho Board of Education, and, on his proposals, Canterbury Cqllego. tho School of Agriculture, and other educational institions wcro established and endowed with over 300.000 acres of land. Ho was created C.M.G. in 1891, and knighted in 1909.1
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 5
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135OBITUARY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 288, 30 August 1920, Page 5
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