OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 267, 8 November 1923, Page 7

OBITUARY.

CAITAIN J. B. KENNEDY. The remains of Captain J. B. Kennedy were cremated at Waiikumete Cemetery yesterday. Deceased was 78 yoara of age and for a long time lived at Waiheke Maud, tout more recently at Burwood Crescent, Eemuera, where Ilia death occurred on Tuesday. Captain j Kennedy was born at Dumfrieshire, Scotland, and when a young man went to Patagonia. Re turning to Scotland he ivas farming on his father's property, and later got a. commission in the Scottish Borderers, later renamed the Royal Scottish Fusiliers. He came to New Zealand in September. ISS3. and ' fco Wai'heke Island, where he remained until a year ago. lie «-j.« married fit Dublin in 1871. Mrs. Kennedy survives her husband. The-ir sen. Mr. .1. Kennedy, resides nt Waiheke. MR. ('. W. STKPHENS. > Another link with the past has been ' broken by the death of Mr. Charles William Stephens, of Manukau Road. Epsom, one of the pioneer settlers of the province. In his youthful days he took to the aoa. and as long ago as the .10's lie made several voyages to Sydney, but it was on February 14, 18(S(i. that he arrived in Auckland in the May Shephard. lie settled sit Maraetai, where he bought a farm of 740 acres, and he could relate many talcs of hair-breadth escapes and ditliculties endured in those early days. Naturally interesting himself in public work. ho served for thirteen I years as chairman of the C'lcvedon Road Board, and the roads and bridges in that district testify to his energy and foresight, while tlie fine outlet to the Great South Hoad is also largely clue to his early conception of the possihilitics of l the fertile valley of the Wairoa. j The late Mr. Stephens generously sup- I ported the Anglican Cluireh, and was . minister's church warden for twentyfive years. He was also a prominent Freemason, and occupied the position of I secretary of Lodge Wairoa. No. fin, after being master for several years. Although the active years of his life were all associated with the Wairoa, Mr. .Stephens spoilt his declining days in the city, where he lived for seventeen years mii capacitated by illness, which' he bore ; with remarkable patience and fortitude. Mr. Stephens leaws a widow, the • daughter of Mr. Thomas Kirk, vetcrinarv surgeon, of Avonmouth, London, and

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