David Anthony Robert Haslam
6289 Aged 74
David was born in Christchurch on 27 August 1940, the elder son of Dr AL Haslam (later Mr Justice, later Sir Alec Haslam) and brother of Alastair (6898). He grew up in Christchurch, attending Fendalton School and then College, first in Julius House from 1954 to 1957, and then boarding in Flower’s House in 1958. He represented the school in debating. He attended Lincoln, graduating Master of Agricultural Science in 1965, with a thesis involving a management study of irrigation farming. After graduation he went to Wellington and worked for the Wool & Meat Board’s Economic Service, and then for the Wool Board. On a travelling scholarship, he went to the northern hemisphere in 1969, attaining an International Marketing Institute Diploma from Harvard. He left the Wool Board in 1976 to be involved in full-time farming, but by 1980 he returned to economic and financial consulting. Later in that decade, he was involved in the restructuring and asset sales programmes with a number of government agencies, including Coal, Land and Forestry Corporations, the National Provident Fund and Crown Research Institutes.
He held a number of directorships including the Crop Research Institute, Canterbury Forestry Foundation, Timberlands West Coast and Crop and Food Research Australia. He was on the Council of Lincoln University from 2000 until 2008, and was a director of Lincoln University Holdings Ltd. His university interest in irrigation continued, with his involvement in the Opuha dam project. From its inception, until just before his death, he was a Trustee of the Central Plains Water Trust with its plans to divert and reticulate water between the Waimakariri and Rakaia Rivers. He was a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors. He lived near Norwood, where he was a renowned host. In his earlier years he was a keen sailor, and also pursued horse racing with admittedly limited success. He died at home on 11 April 2015. He is survived by his wife Marcia, and stepdaughter Jeanette, as well as his sisters Judy Robertson and Gill Marris, brother Alastair (6898), and four nieces and six nephews.
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