MR. CHARLES JUDD.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) THAMES, this day. The death is announced to-day of Mr. ! Chas. Judd, aged 87. He was born at Hertfordshire in 1837, and served his apprenticeship in Derbyshire at Staveley iron works. He came in the ship British Queen to New Zealand, the voyage taking six months, and arrived at Thames in 1868. Here he opened the Pioneer Iron Foundry, from which the first molten metal was run on November 17, 1869. He constructed most of the iron light- j houses on the New Zealand coast. Deceased leaves a • grown-up family.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 168, 17 July 1924, Page 8
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