OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 11

OBITUARY.

, ! SIXTY YEARS COLONIST. j MIL .TOHX XOOXAX. ! A colonist of 02 years' standing. Mr. ; •Tohn Xoonan, died at Auckland Hospital : in the TGth year of his age. He arrived | in Auckland in IS ft 5. with the colonist:-! ! from the (.ape. and settled at Pukekohc. ! j Lnt il a few years ago lie was engaged lin farming in various districts. I'pon 1 hi- retirement from active work. Mr. , Noonan came to Auckland to live. | ,' MR. AUDUS RAYNES. ' i fi A well-known re.-ideni of Tak.;piin.?. ; ■ j Mr. Audus llaynes, died in a private j 'hospital on Sunday night. lie was for . " i many years proprietor of Mon Desir j ? Hotel. Takapuna. Upon retiring from ' p that business. Mr. Raynes purchased the ' i Wt-llwood farm, at Mauku. where he has' ' lived for .-ome years. He returned to j i'.ikapuna about tliree years ago to i ■pond the evening of his days. IVceascl i ■ -.nvivcd bv Mr?. Laynes and five sons. MRS. ANNE RUSSELL. One of Wanganui's oldest pioneer? k awav on Saturday last in t:ie '■ , person of Mrs. Anne Busseil. relict of '; , the late Mr. John Russell, win pre-de- '< erased her Mime forty years ago. Tne \l ' late Mr»-. Russell, who had reached the i- ' ripe < 1.1 • ge of S~ years, had resided e [ in Wangaiuii r-inee and therefore ■r < had her fair share of the trial* and 1 j tribulations of those early days of tae 1 Maori War. Her kindly and genial I natiire endeared tier to those intimately ," ! acquainted with her. Sh«? leaves a 0 I grown-up family of Circe son* an<l six ,1 ' daughters.. Mr. Joseph Russell i w iio i<ie at Xewmarkt-t Workshojv. Auckland I. y Mr. John Kn»sc!l iof Hawerai. Mr. Wil- " ; liam Ku-sell it:ie "ell-known handicap'r ;. -r and judge for manv racing cluas. in .New Zealand i Mrv \V. M. Douglas , i (Ifawera 1 . Mr*. (_'. Cud by (Hawerai. J! i Mr-. 1". (Lirdiner ' Wellington i. Mr*. .1. [..; \\ iekltTe (Wellington i. Mrs. <L Kir.:' I . (\\ c'tingt -n '. and Mi*s Hu=«-el! iWangj■x nui.i j MR. J. G. BROVTIL iel K - | The interment took place at M | Waikuinete ( euielerv of tin- lemaini°jof Mr. -Tohn Cray Brown, wh-e I] 'death occurred on Sunday at hi--1.-, ! residence. College Hill. Mr j : I Brown wa- a native of the Sv.it'n I«l.in 1 ! j; ; hut had Vrn rtar.-ined in Auckland on ■G;t : Te -tall of H.M. C;i«tom-. He wit* an j: ' efficient. con»-cicnl i.ui* officer and e\tretnely popular with hiis colleague*. Mr. ' Brown served as a trooper in the South 1 \:'r'..T.n War. Of recent \ea~- hi* health i. had lieen uiir.it i-factory. The end came j-i pea.-efullv in the hour- of Sunday, i. LAn cut husiasT i ■ Unwler. he na< n ''j rr.i-iv'v-r of the l'on-onhv Civ. ' tin::! hly d;-H! ;. He g'e.r'v respcc-rl 'y ~ 1 : bi'je (ir.'le of friends. , v wh.-r:i The '.'> ! g-ni.,! •-.!., k"" will '.e -a llv m'--^i. MR. HARRY HOLDER WLSTPOLT. Tit»«-lay. ! Mr. Harry Ibdde:. a ;,.,;, ;ke, ~cr at : We.tjiort. who h.'- I-• :: -;-;:i'.in r : » f. v. ,''">- •'■' ( iiarlc-tou. ■■•■P.ip-.-d cii'i mli- d jll ere ti :- I'.f-.-rtio,.!!. ',].. va- a l .it ;• .■ |of W.HI 2 nui. atid c) v.ars •: ;!_••. ; l'ormerlv he was a in. m'ocr of i',e I'.i'li- - ( onnty ( nutiril. a:n! in hi- ■ in .-• ■ da - !•!• vk.i- .; line athlete.