HELD TO PRINCIPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 9

HELD TO PRINCIPLE

FINE OLD RESIDENT REFUSED TO USE SUNDAY TRAMS With the steadfastness of his stock, the late Mr. David McNair Dingwall, a son of early Auckland, who died on Monday, held to his principles. He opposed the original proposal to run the trams on Sunday, and to the last of his days he refused to enter a car on the Sabbath. A son of the late Mr. Alexander Dingwall, who was a. builder in the city’s infancy, Mr. David McNair Dingwall had seen many changes in the 82 years of his life. His father, with two. other “Sandies,” Messrs. Alexander Black and Alexander Marshall, who bought, at one of the earliest of the Government land sales, the property abutting on the north side of Exchange Lane, off Queen Street, opposite the end of Fort Street. Upon it they erected on what was then foreshore land three of the first three-storey warehouses in Auckland. Mr. David Dingwall was born in Swanson Street, on the site now occupied by Dingwall’s Buildings. He became an accountant in the firm of Webster and Patterson, merchants, after being educated at the Rev. John Gorie’s school. Later he was confidential clerk to Messrs. 8.. Tonks and Company, then one of the principal auctioneering firms in the city. About 40 years ago he retired from active life, and had since lived quietly at his home in Remuera with his sister, Miss Sarah Dingwall. A stalwart churchman, the late Mr. Dingwall had held office in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and St. Luke’s, Remuera. He was a keen bowler, and an enthusiastic walker and angler. * After a service at St. Luke’s this afternoon the funeral will be held at Symond’s Street cemetery.