OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 4

OBITUARY

MR CHARLES TODD (P.A.) WELLINGTON. August 21. Mr Charles Todd, of Todd Motors, Ltd., died suddenly this morning. He was engaged in business throughout yesterday and attended a meeting connected with patriotic matters and his collapse was quite unexpected. ' . Bom in 1868 in Peebles, Scotland, he came to New Zealand as a young boy. His early business life was spent at Heriot, Otago, where he was connected with wool and skins, storekeeping and a stock and station agency. In 1915 he opened up branches of his stock and station business in Dunedin (to which he had removed), Invercargill. Gore and other places and in 1925 he sold out to Dalgety and Company and took up the Chrysler car for New Zealand, setting up in Wellington in 1926. Both at Dunedin and Wellington Mr Todd took a prominent part in public activity. He was a director of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin in 1926 and deputy-chairman of the Centennial Exhibition at Wellington. He was interested in temperance matters and was president or the New Zealand Alliance. Since the war he had taken an active part in patriotic efforts.

In addition to his business interests Mr Todd was associated with many social activities, and in recent years he was probably best known in Southland by his part in the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. He was president of the Otago Expansion League, the Otago branch of the United Temperance Reform Council and the Otago Cricket Association, and he was a member of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. He was also Mayor of St. Kilda (Dunedin) from 1923 to 1925. Mr Todd visited Invercargill several months ago in the interests of the campaign for the reclamation of waste material. MR A. B. THOMSON (P.A.) AUCKLAND. August 21. The death has occurred of Mr Adam Blacklock Thomson, managing director of De Schryver, Limited. In the course of a wide business career he won the respect of a wide circle of business connections and friends throughout New Zealand and also in Canada and the United States, where he travelled extensively.