OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 153, 29 June 1914, Page 7

OBITUARY.

DEATH C'F 3ER. E. C. TOWLE. f\Ve repfret to announce- the ileat'h ot Mr. K. C. Tovvle. which took place evening at hit* residence in Owen's Road, Kpsom. J).\-ease<l wats bixty-fou-r years .ot age. lie was one of the. .best known ; bankers in Auck-laml. having- been manI asrer of the Bank of Nrjv South Wales | for twelve or thirteen y-e.irs. Durin.tr it'ie time he held that responsible post ,'.ie .ffain-ed rae respect and confidence of - the biiisinr.-s people of the city, by the jsam-e isterling qualitb-cs which in private | life gainevl him the esteem of all ihcso. | who knew him. Iv .March. 1912, lie reI tired from the strrvrce of the hank after I thirty-five years' service, and '.itn friends j were ]ookin<r forward to hU spending jmatiy more years in the enjoyment of a I v.-ell-earned retirement. About a year airo :he suffered from an ilin-ess vrhrch neccesiI lated an operation, but lin-had apjrarently |q v i tie recovered. Deceased lea vre i ' widow, four daughters (nno of -whom is Mrs. flrorjre "Worledge. of 'Fiji) and two sorts.— "Mr. R. P. Tonic of the lrfral firm ,of Mresrs Reed. Bailey and Towle. and |ilr. fans. Towle. Klag-s wrr? flown half mas" to-day out of rcepert of the late ■ Mt. Towle at. the Rank of Xew South Wales and the Auckland Club, deceased having been a well known member of the Matter; DKATII OF }IKS. CLEMENTS. ■An old colonist. Mrs. Frances Sarah Clements, .lio.l at her residence. -Ilobson Park Road. Parnell. yesterday. Doecused was the wife of Mr. Archibald C'livrucntfi, ia trustee of the Auckland Savings Hank I an,] al*:. of the Knox Estate. Mrs. .Cleiuents was tlie .laughter of the late Willram P.ose, of Ballinelee. Co. Longj lord, Ireland, and sister of the Vicar of |( lorkenwell. London, Rev. .1. 11. Rofe. ■ Mr. and Mrs. t'lemeiils were married in ! Ireland, and started the i-amie day tor j New Zealand in the clipper Kaoehonse. Ilie voynjrc was eventful, as they were I twice shipwrecked on the -way out. P.ea<rhin;i Auckland in lSli!). Mr. and ■ Mr-. Clements went to in t-he ! days when Te Kooti was a. puvver. nnd Jtlte King Country- was the refuge of •Mauri murderers who had evaded capit lire. I; took Mr. and Mrs. Clements i three <bi v.- to aconrplish tho journey bejtween Auckland and Cambridge. After residing in the \V.iiku.to for :tll years Mr. and Mrs. Clements returned to Au.-k----■land, where they have lived for the last 20 year-. Mrs. Clements was :l member nf St. Mary's Anglican Church, Parnell. and liiyhly esteemed for her undoubted f;hri»tian virtue.*. Tlie interment will be private, at Clements Park. Cambridge.