OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 8

OBITUARY.

WELL-KNOWN ARTIST}, MISS MINA AEKDT. Information has been received of thii death of Mr 3. Manoy, who wa3 better' known as Miss Mina Arndt, one of tha leading woman artists of New Zealand, She first studied at the Wellington Arfc School where her work was of a distin. guished character. Her tutor was thalate Mr. James M. Nairn. Mies Anid£ later went to Paris and London to con. tinue her studies. Her work was always much appreciated, her speciality being. : etching and portraits in line, the latter, being recognised as of exceptional merit Upon her return to New Zealand, ilis» Arndt was married to Mr. Manoy, of Motueka, near Nelson, where she con* tinued her art work until the end of hef~ life. KAURIHORE PIONEER. MRS. K. ORLENNAN. At the advanced age oi 94 years, one of the early settlers in the Kaurihore district, Mrs. Katherine Orlennan, died at.Hikurangi yesterday morning. She * ■ was the widow of Mr. Duncan Orlennan. and was one of the band of pioneer settlers from Sutherland, Scotland, what, came out in early days to make homes u£ the North of Auckland. \ MR. JOSEPH FREER. (By Telegraph—Special to "Star.") HAMILTON, this day. -; Mr. Joseph Freer, who died in the Wai*. kato Hospital, last night at the age of" 80 years, was a very old settler of the Waikato. Born at Grassby, in Lincolnshire, he came to New Zealand at the age of eleven years, and settled at Mangonui. He was on the Thames Goldfield in 1868-69, and came to Hamilton ia 1874, and had been here ever since. He Was a member of the Borough Council in 1889. He was a bridge builder by trade, and helped to construct the old Hamilton and Ngaruawahia bridges. He is survived by his wife and two married daughters (Mrs. C. H. Jolly, Hamilton, and Mrs. R. J. Eyles, Auckland).