OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1938, Page 22

OBITUARY.

MR. CHARLES J. McENTEE. A well-known resident of I'apakura. Mr. Charles .T. McEntoc. lias ("tied in hi-eighty-ninth year. With liis wife '<<• came to Xcw Zealand in IS7:> in tinship St. Leonards. Almost as soon a- _• arrived Mr. McEntec was sworn in m • member of the militia and piven a rifle and ammunition, for, although the Maori War was over, Te Kooti was fairly active and there wore still fears of native unre.-.t. Mr. McEntee went to Tauranga, where he was employed on the erection of the courthouse. After three years he returned to Auckland and he and his wife lived at Newmarket , and Remuera for over 40 year*. They made their home at Papakura in 1019.

Whilst in Auckland Mr. McEntee worked as foreman for several wellknown building firms. When two sons had finished their apprenticeship to the building trade Mr. McEntee formed the firm of C. J. McEntee and Sons, which operated from Auckland for some veais and later removed to Papakura. Mr. McEntee was the oldest member of Court Nil Desperandum, Ancient Order of Foresters, Auckland. He and Mrs. McEntee, who survives him. celebrated their diamond wedding in 1030. One of their sons, Mr. H. E. McEntee, was chairman of the Papakura Town Board for many years prior to the ■ recent conversion of the town district into a borough. ' JiR. M. GRIBBLE. The death has occurred in Wellington at the age of 83 years of Mr. M. Gribble, farmer, of Stokes Valley. He was born on Kawau Island, Hauraki Gulf (the home of Sir George Gray), and his curly boyhood was spent in and around Auckland. Thence he went to Adelaide to return to Hawke's Bay, where he followed businees pursuits until the call o'f the bush was too strong to resist, and he made his way to Makotuku in the (then) Forty Mile Bush. Here Mr. Gribble took up sawmilling, with all its vicissitudes—bush fires, accident risks, etc. —and here he married Mies Annie Letitia Parsons. He took a part in the general interests of remote settlements, school committees, musical circles and so forth, but finally removed to WelJinsrton in 1001. sticking to the timber industry until 2o years ago, when he and his son-in-law took up land in Stokes Valley. By industry, eourajre and unfailing optimism. Mr. Gribble helped to turn a {angle of second growth into farm land equal to pny in the district. Of a happy. cheerful dinnoisitiqn. he endeared himself to all with whom he made personal ••ontaet. Tn his qriet. unobtrusive way he made New Zealand a better country to- lire in and the syirnathv of a host of friends is to his widow, his daughter. Mrs. L. H. Yonnsr (Stnkpe VolVv). bis son. Mr. Horace G. Oribble (Rotorua) and to his six grandchildren. MR. F. L. GORDON. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, this day. The death has occurred of one of Hawke's Bay's most prominent landowners and sheep-breeders. Mr. Frank Lindsay Gordon, aged 72 years. Mr. Gordon, who was born at Napier, was educated in England at the United Services College at Westward Ho. Devon, and afterwards returned to New Zealand and made his home at Clifton, which he later developed into one of the beetknown among the really big sheep stations of the district. Clifton is on the coast a few miles south from Napier. Originally it contained 14,000 acres, extending out to the amnnets 7 sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers. ft* present size, in consequence of. sales Isfe ■ n * * o, *dlvieions. it* little more than jfe^^W^ag* oll took * prominent part in A sport* Hβ