Hankin, Thomas Henry, LVSc, BVSc 1914

Thomas Henry Hankin, B.V.Sc., M.R.C.V.S.

Tommy Hankin was born in 1888.  He graduated from the Melbourne Veterinary School in 1914.  He soon joined the A.I.F. and served in the war as Veterinary Officer in Egypt and in France.  After the war he went to Edinburgh and obtained his M.R.C.V.S. and then returned to New Zealand and set up practice in Pukekohe.  In 1927 he joined the Department of Agriculture as a Veterinarian and was stationed successively in Wanganui, Masterton and Whangarei before his appointment as Livestock Superintendent, Auckland, where he stayed until his retirement in 1953.  After he retired he moved to Pukekohe and was kept busy with land and livestock until his sudden death on November 1, 1971.

I should like to record my appreciation of his friendship — I first knew him when I was a schoolboy and he was a student.  He was a competent veterinarian and did valuable work over the years with livestock and their problems.  He was a forthright member of the profession, a cheerful and co-operative colleague;  as an administrator he was held in respect by all who worked under him.

To his widow and his two daughters we express our deepest sympathy.