OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 81, 16 January 1930, Page 6

OBITUARY.

MR W. C. DOYLE. There died recently at his residence in Marton (Rangitikei) Mr William Glassey Dovle, second son of the late Mr John Doyle, one of three brothers after whom was unmedvthe prosperous township and district of Doyleston, near Leeston. Seeking a greater scope for his enterprising labours, Mr John Doyle moved with his growing family to the then newly-opened ltuapunaMayfield- district, cut out of Moorhoiise’s Shepherd's Bush run, under the slopes of Mount Peel, but on the north side of the Rangitata River, land adjoining Sir John Cracroft ills oil’s “Cracroft” run, stretching between tlie Hinds and Rangitata Rivers hud from the railway to tlie Alpine foothills. Here Mr .John Doyle built lhs homestead, “Eden Terrace,” noted for its hospitality. It was in this rugged Ruapuna country that W illie Doyle —horn in 1870 and educated at Doyleston—and his brothers toiled from their early ’teens to help their father gather the great stones into the numerous cairns of that plain in addition to the usual farming operations. Attracted to the Marlborough province, Mi- W. G. Doyle farmed at Kaikoura, where he was a member of the Kaikoura County Council, and ol the executive of the Kaikoura A. and P. Association, and took an active part in having tlie Woodside run cut up for closer settlement. Moving to the North Island, he acted for a time as manager of tlie Bruntwood Estate till he bought a farm of his own at Monavale, Cambridge. Here he became president *jf the Mona.vale Settlers’ Association, and a member of the executive of the Central Waikato A. and P. Association, and of fhe Waikato Hunt Club. For a while he managed Mr Alex. Allison’s estate of 22,000 acres at Rotorua, which he left to manage for Mr Wenzel Scholium, of Auckland, the Wairouru Estate (near Mount Ruapehu) of 74,000 acres, till it was sold to Lysnar Bros., of Gisborne, and then Mr Doyle moved to Marton, Ran-

gitikei, where he entered the service of the X.Z. Farmers’ Co-operative Distributing Company.- But a life of strenuous, active labour was telling on his health, which gradually declined till lie passed away last Xew Year’s Day. Air Doyle was twice married—first to Miss Ella IShaw, daughter of the late Mr IT. J. Shaw, of Christchurch, by whom be bad three daughters, and later to Miss Julia Laugesen, second daughter of the late Mr Louis Laugesen. sawmiller, Kaikoura, by whom lie had, a daughter and a son, the latter a promising young man who died five years aeo.

Mr Dovle took great interest in sport, being a keen footballer and a fair athlete, and be was a member of Captain Buckley’s [Mounted Rifles at Lagmho'r, Ashburton. He was a good judge of stock, and for a time acted as bulge at Collie dog trials in the Waikato district.