OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 173, 24 July 1934, Page 3

OBITUARY.

MR. HUGH GILLIES. i i ? A well-known settler on the Rangif tikei line, Mr. Hu'-di Gillies, died on ' July 21, aged 82. He was bom at Mar- ' tinborough, Wairarapa, and later he was f employed as a farm manager by the - late Mr. Charles Robert Bidwill. Some i time later he joined up with the Gear i Meat Company, acting as buyer. He > took up his residence at Otaki, and sub- > sequently at Fox ton and Palmerston North, and finally on the Rangitikei line. Mr. Gillies was connected with the Manawatu Kacing Club almost from its formation, and was elected president in 1597, and since then acted as steward. He also at one time raced horses of his own. He was for many years judge at Foxton, and other race meetings. Mr. Gillies was also for many years a steward of the Manawatu A. and P. Asso- ; eiation, had been president, and was a 1 first-class judge of horses and cattle. He belonged to Lodge Manawatu, Kilwinning, Freemasons, and a member of the ilanawatu Club. Deceased is survived by Mrs. Gillies and two children, 1 Mr. W. S. Gillies, of Taupo, and Mrs. London, Palmerston North. MRS. CAROLINE MEYER. An early settlor at Manawatu, Mrs. Caroline Meyer, died at Hamilton on Sunday, aged 74 years. Born at Longland, a small island off the coast of Benmark, Mrs. Meyer came to New Zealand with her parents in the sailing ship Poineau, which was later wrecked at San Francisco. It was a perilous vo3'age, and, from boarding the ship at London, 103 days transpired before the South Island of New Zealand was reached. The family settled at Banks Peninsula, where Mrs. Meyer was married to a neighbouring settler, Mr. Hans Peter Meyer. Three years later the couple removed to Campbelltown, now called Rangatira, in the Manawatu district, where a holding was carved out of the thick bush area. More than 20 years were spent in the Manawatu. Later the family removed to Hawke's Bay. Mrs. Meyer, who was predeceased by her husband, is survived by twelve children, Messrs. 11. P. Meyer (Hamilton), J. Meyer (Pukekohe), J. T. Meyer (Papatoetoe), X. Meyer (Christchurch), R. Meyer (Palmerston North), E. Meyer (Los Angeles), A. Meyer (Auckland), and Mesdames A. Bourne (Paterangi), B. Elliott (Hamilton), West bury (Te Awamutu), Graham (Kihikihi) and C. Arnspiger (United States). Descendants include 52 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. MR. E. L'ESTRANGE BARTON. The death occurred at Selwyn House.. Parnell, on July 22, of Mr. Elliott L'Estrango Barton, barrister and solicitor. He was born in Melbourne in 1857 and came to New Zealand with his father, the late Judge Barton, of the Native Lands Court, at an early age. Ho was educated at the Otago High School and also in the south of France, an experience which he aiways said was of the greatest value to him. In 1884 he was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court by the late Mr. Justice Richmond, and almost immediately commenced practice in Patea. "After the railway went through he shifted to Hawera in ISSS and became Mayor of the town. Twenty years ago Mr. Barton's health commenced to fail and he caiue to Auckland to live. He is survived by Mrs. Barton, who has always taken an active part in his many-sided activities, and to whose aid he said he owed much of his succegs.