OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1925, Page 14

OBITUARY.

MR. WILLIAM KEWSOME. ;! ! i j An old and respected pioneer of :"he .] Te Aroha ard iiatamata districts; -'! r - ---. I William Neweoaie. died at the ai'« of 7« | iai his residence a; Waharoa ibis ireeK. ' j Mr. New some «x- a native of Yorkshire ' i (England), and landed at Lyiteiion from I lie ship Kakaia. lie then came to the , Waikato. and t-ook up a position with J ' the lai* Sir William lierries. M.P. (then : I Mr.', with s:io3] he "'vas for toni* years, j ;I He after took up a block of land at j . ! Gordon lrriid--'Vay between Matamaui : I i 2nd Te Aroha i, which lie Lad been ; farming continuously sm?<- —a period of I , 37 years. In those days the only means i \of conveying gooda was by pack- j ' l horse. Mr. Nen-.-ome was of the sturdy, i j reliant type. His odlv gnrvivor is a ! . son, Mr. O. T. Xeweome, of V.aharoa. | MR. ALBERT J. WRIGHT. , I -Mr. Albert J. Wright, a resident of the ' ' Bay of Islands for the past 50 years, died j ' ; yesterday. Arriving in Auckland in 1874, : [I he went Xorth. and for 14 rear? was j ! j emp]fiy«K3 liy .Metfr-. Ckiffe and Co. J-axer j ;he entered into business as a storekeeper j ', at Kaikohe. and earned the highest I i respect of both the European and native , residents. Deceased is survived by his ivido-u- i a daughter of Mr- F. T. Kfmp. , formerly Civil CominisFionre, Aurkiand'. I a daughter, and four &on«. The inter- . I ment v-<ik place in the Kaikohe native : cemetery.