Obituary

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 12

Obituary

MR. NORMAN URQUHART

A well-known figure in the grocery i trad ? at Auckland and at one time ; president of the Auckland Grocers’ I Association, Mr. Xorman Urquhart ! SS d at J lis home at 5 Mason Avenue,’ I Herne Bay. j f , After serving an apprenticeship at die trade, Mr. Urquhart bought the I premises of Messrs. Billington and | Drummond, of Freeman’s Bar but j subsequently sold out and took' up a nl J .®!! 1 h SS at College Hill until failing health necessitated his retirement Mr Lrquhart, who was a keen bowler and 1 r,”l e ™ her of . th ? West End Bowling ’ js survived by his wife j— _ ' MR. BENJAMIN LANE Mi'. Benjamin Bane, who died at Xor?h ° n J riJay ’ a leading Morth Shore business man. Born at Bath, m 1861, Mr. Bane went to Australia as a young man, starting a business at Kiama, about 70 miles sold Vds n ydney ‘ Somc 1-ears later he sold his business and went to sea as .head baker on the original steamer Aorangi. After serving on other i steamers of the Union Steam Shin Company he settled in Auckland, and | wonted at his trade, eventually aci quiring Begge’s bakery at Devonport. During the war he moved to Takapuna ; where he had lived since. .air. Banc j leaves one son and four daughters.