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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Thomas Colin Thwaites
Mr. Thomas Colin Thwaites , who was appointed Dispenser to the Dunedin Hospital in June, 1902, is a native of Auckland. He was born in 1876, and is the youngest son of Mr. Thomas Colin Thwaites, an early colonist, who was for many years engaged in the sawmilling industry in Auckland town and district. Mr. Thwaites was primarily educated in the Aucklanl city schools, for the most part under his brother, who is at present (1904) headmaster of the Epsom public school, and in 1892 was apprenticed as a chemist and druggist under Messrs Henderson and Orr, of Queen Street. In 1896 he removed to Christchurch, where he managed the Sydenham Pharmacy, for Mr. Spencer Vincent. Mr. Thwaites gained his diploma as a duly qualified chemist in 1897, and in the following year he returned to Auckland, where, in the Upper Thames gold-mining districts, he practised his profession for about two years. In 1900 he gained an appointment under Mr. William Parker, of Manners Street, Wellington, and fifteen months later was engaged to manage a pharmacy at Feilding, whence, in 1902 he proceeded to his present position. Mr. Thwaites is a member of the Otago Pharmaceutical Associtaion.