OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26623, 20 November 1947, Page 2

OBITUARY

MR H. L. GIBSON The death occurred on Tuesdaynight of Mr Henry Lewis Gibson, aged 68. Mr Gibson was on the staff of the New Zealand Railways for 40 years and was well-known in Dunedin as an executive member of many local organisations and a former city councillor. Born in Rockhampton, in 1879 Mr Gibson came to New Zealand three years later. He attended the Caversham Primary School for a time and was also a pupil at the Lawrence District High School. Much of his early service with the Railways Department was in Dunedin and other parts of the province, and he eventually became district traffic manager for Dunedin, a position he held from 1930 until his retirement in 1937.

Mr Gibson was keenly interested in the furthering of travel in the South Island and he was a foundation member and first president of the Dunedin Travel Club. He was a director of

the Group Travel Association and was for seven years the president of the South Islands- Travel Association, fie was also, for a time, on the executive of the Automobile Association, of Otago. Mr Gibson was the founder and first master of the Strath Taieri Lodge and was on the original council of the Hard of Hearing League. After serving for some years as the secretary of the Dunedin Citizens’ Association, Mr Gibson was elected to the City Council in 1938. He was chairman of the Transport Committee until granted leave of absence in 1940 for the remainder of the term. For 13 years he was an executive member of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. Until his death he was actively associated with the Justices of the Peace Association and the Patients’ and Prisoners’ Aid Society. Mr Gibson is survived by his widow, three daughters—Mrs R. H. Sherris, Christchurch; Mrs D. M. Kidd, Brook side, Canterbury, and Miss Phyllis Gibson, Dunedin; and a son, Mr H. L. Gibson, Dunedin.