by Chris Morton

It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Jock Clouston on 18 October 2003.

Jock was a man I had a lot of respect for as he had a varied life and could talk on many levels on widely differing subjects: Ex RNZ Navy, shepherd, rabbiter, piano-accordion player, rugby player, Turakina resident for 45 years, collector extraordinaire immortalised in the book ‘Blokes and Sheds’, member of MWT Meccano Club, etc.

My strongest memory of Jock would have to be as an inveterate magpie  and I mean this in the nicest possible way, as I think there must be very few mechanical objects and devices that he had not explored and dismantled, and if some did not reach complete reassembly that was Jock.

Jock’s Meccano collection reflected his collecting nature and invariably at our MWT Meccano club ‘antique show and tell’, Jock would have something to show. He disposed of his Meccano in recent years but this did not diminish his interest.

I will miss his smiling face and I am quite sure that many others will share the same sentiments.

Chris Morton.