OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 13

OBITUARY.

MRS. (DR.) HALL, (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, this day. Mrs. Hall, wife of Dr. .Hall, medical superintendent of Gisborne Hospital, is dead. She was a qualified medical practitioner, and had been a house surgeon at tho hospital for several years.

MISS CHRISTINA BELL.

One of the oldest 'residents of the Pakuranga district, Miss Christina Bell, has died at Howick, aged 73 years. She was born in Perth, Scotland, and came to Auckland in the ship Maori in 1868. Her parents settled at Pakuranga, where Miss Bell lived until she moved to Howick a couple of years ago. Miss Bell was connected with the Presbyterian Church at Pakuranga. Her funeral was attended by many old settlers. The Rev. D. Mclntyre conducted the funeral service.

MR. ROBERT HUME.

At the age of 78 years, Mr. Robert Hume, who was born in Parnell, died at Maropiu, about 13 miles from Dargaville. He went to the Northern Wairoa in 1873 and established the first boardinghouse at Mangawhare. Mr. Hume had been farming at Maropiu for 15 years prior to his death. > In his earlier days Mr. Hume was a member of the United Football Club. Two sons were killed in the Great War. Mrs. Hume and the following children survive:—Messrs. William and Charles Hume, of Maropiu; Mrs. F. Lunny, of Mangawhare, and Miss Jane Hume, of Maropiu.' DR. C. E. R. BUCKNILL. The death has occurred at Tauranga, of Dr. Charles Edward Reading Bucknill, at the age of 64 years. He took a keen interest in the territorial movement, both in England and New Zealand, arid rose to the rank of major. He wrote a book oh New Zealand shells, which is recognised as a standard work.