MR. N. T. CARRINGTON

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 8

MR. N. T. CARRINGTON

. Our Own Correspondeut i

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WHANGAREI, Last Night. A varied career ended with tlie death of Mr Nelson Thomas Carrington, of Moengawahine, in his SOth year. Ht, was a son of the editor of ths "Bath !?a,zette" and' emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 20. On the opening of Lincoln College, Canterbury,. he was appointed lecturer in chemistry, and i'or some years he was curator of the Christchurch Museuxn. Over 50 years ago he came to North Auckland and was tho first white settler to settle on the far side of the Wairoa River, which he crossed in a canoe which he made himself. A man of physical strength, he thought nothing of setting off from his home at midnight, walking to Whangarei, a diatance of 25 iniles, and returning tlie same afternoon with a month's stores on his back. He is survived by his wife, one son, Mr Eric Carrington, and one daughter, Mrs C. G. Stewart (Ohaeawai). Dean Carrington, until recently of Christchurch, is a brother, and. tho recently ordained Bisliop of Quebec, t]-.e .Rt. Rev. Philip Carrington, a nephow.