OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 123, 27 May 1929, Page 8

OBITUARY.

MR. N. D'ACY CHAMPNEY. Mr. Norman D'Acy Champney, of Tauranga, passed away at the Tauranga Hospital on Wednesday from pneumonia, aged 47. Mr. Cha'mpney served in the Boer war in 1900 and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1908. He joined up with the Main Body, and was at the landing at Gallipoli. He was severely wounded, was mentioned in dispatches by Sir lan Hamilton for meritorious conduct, and was also presented with the Silver Medal for distinguished conduct in 1916 by the King of Serbia. After recovering from his wounds he returned to Tauranga, where he had been engaged in farming. He was accorded a military funeral.

MRS. TE TAHUI GRACE,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON", this day. Mrs. Te Ta'hui Grace, -wife of Mr. Laurence M. Grace, formerly M.H.R. for Tauranga, died early yesterady at her residence in Russell Terrace. She wan a daughter of Te Horonuku Heuheu, who was paramount chief of the Ngati-tuwharc-toa tribe, of Taupo, and a siter of the late Te Heuheu Tukino, M.L.C., whose successor at the head of the tribe is Hoani Te Heuheu, who resides on the ancestral lands at Taupo. Te Heuheu Tukino it was who presented National Park to New Zealand. Mrs. Grace leaves a family of three sons and five daughters: Mr. W. H. Grace, of Wellington; Dr. R. T. Grace, of tflie Royal Air Force, England; Mr. T. H. Grace, of Wellington; Miss Eudora Grace, at present connected with the English Church Sisterhood in London; and Mesdames H. Ornder (Wairarapa), B. S. Gribbin (Wellington), H. S. Fox (Rakaia), and B. Barling (Wellington). One son, Mr. T. M. (Harmi) Grace, a Wellington and North. I&land Rjugby representative, was killed on Gallipoli. A tangi will be held at Mrs. Grace's birthplace, Wai'hi, on the shore of Lake Taupo.

MR., ESAU MARSH.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association,) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. Mr. Esau March, who died at his home near Waitara yesterday, is believed to have been the last of the settlers who landed at New Plymouth from the ship Timandra on February 24, 1842. Mr. Marsh served in the Maori war and for 15 years afterwards was a carter in connection with the surfboat service. In 1884 he occupied a farm at Waihi, it being tribal land acquired by his wife, to whom he had been married in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh had 17 children, all of whom married. There have been more than 130 grandchildren and 60 greatgrandchildren. The arrival of the Timandra, 382 tons, the fifth of the New Zealand Company's chartered vessels, completed the first year's history of the town and district of New Plymouth. She left Plymouth on November 2, 1841, with 212 passengers and arrived off New Plymouth on February 23, 1842.

MR. F. N. ADAMS.

One of New Zealand's best-known figures in the motoring world, Mr. Frederick Nelson Adams, founder of the firm of Adams, Ltd., motor traders, died in Christchurch last week. Mr. Adams came to New Zealand from England when a lad and had carried on business in Christchurch for 40 years. In the early days he had a small workshop where he made and sold bicycles. Two or three years later, under the name of Adams and Curtis, bicycles were imported. It was in 1906 that Mr. Adams went into 'the motor business, his agencies in those days including the Minerva, Swift, Talbot, Huntber and the Triumph motor bike. In 1912 the name of the firm was changed to Adams, Limited. When, in 1914, Mi". Adams found that he could not get English cars to sell, he took over the Studebaker agency, and from that time onwards the firm grew with great rapidity, until to-day it is one of the best-known concerns in New Zealand's motoring world, having branches in Auckland, Wellington, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Timaru and Dunedin, with headquarters at Christchurch. Mr. Adams was a man who all his life placed business first and foremost. Public life, although it appealed to him, was sacrificed for business. He was a single man, and is survived by five brothers and two sisters.

MRS. MARY E. TARRY.

At the age of 86, Mrs. Mary E. Tarry, | died at her residence in Queen Street, [ Northcote, on Saturday. Mrs. Tarry ! came to New Zealand with her husband, ; the late Mr. Philip Tarry, some 40 years ago, but when the latter retired from the service of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, the family went back to England. They subsequently returned to New Zealand and made their home at Northcote. In the course of her lengthy residence at Northcote, Mrs. Tarry took a keen interest in various activities and her services were highly valued. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. K. Benner, of Pongakawa, Bay of Plenty, and she leaves ten grandchildren. The late Mrs. E. H. Potter was also a , daughter of Mrs. Tarry. The interment took place at Birkenhead to-day. |