DR. MONCKTON.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1143, 26 March 1910, Page 2

DR. MONCKTON.

Dropped Dead at Bis (jate.

VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE

To the list oi' ol"d residents and public men of Feilding w.ho have passed to the Great Beyond lately, the name of Dr. Frederick A. Monckton has now to be added. The venerable doctor, so well and popularly known in Feilding and district for the past 24 years, was found dead at his gate yesterday afternoon, shortly after 4 o'clock.

The facts are that Dr. Monckton had been out in his trap, and, returning, was coming through the gate to his residence in Campbell street, on the bank of the Oroua river, when he was seen by the lady help at the house to suddenly collapse and fall prostrate to the ground. In order not to alarm Mrs Monckton, the witness to the occurrence, feeling there was something serious the matter, hastened to Mrs Prior, whom she called over. Mrs Prior quickly went to the gate, and felt the doctor's pulse, but the body was already becoming cold. Dr. Johnston was communicated with, and Mrs Monckton was informed of the sad affair. When the doctor arrived, life was pronounced to be extinct.

'As the deceased gentleman had been under medical treatment for heart disease, the death is assigned to that cause.

Dr. Monckton came to New Zealand h-oin Lngjand over 30 years ago. He had previously been an army surgeon He landed at the Bluff, where he ived for some time. While there he leased the Auckland Islands from tV brovernment, and made periodica] trip* to the island in a cutter, to brine back his wool. Leaving the Bluff, he went to Greymouth, and from there lie came to Feilding, where he has re&L t] \ c '? st 24 y eaT ?- J n the j;ear 1889 he became Mayor of the borough being elected over the late f + i ■ oodb^i ere - on tlle casting vote + ? e, T o^" 1 9 } er \ He a]so ™* up to his doatli the office of Public Vaccinator for PeiWing. He was a "e----inal old English gentleman and though not a prominent public man took a great interest in the affairs of the town. He was twice married and his second wife survives him Ihe members of the.family are- Mr G. A W. Monckton (Te Horo, late an administrator in • New Guinea), Mrs Broad (wife of the Hastings manager of the Bank of New Zealand), w-?T^\ L -,F etch ' (of Kimholton road , I* eliding) Mrs Cooke (wife of the solicitor, of Balmerston), and Mrs H P. Lance is a step-daughter.