OBITUARY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 201, 26 August 1941, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR. SAMUEL VIALL The death has occurred at Pn* Valley. WJ&rkworth. of Mr. Sann» Viall, aged 83. Mr. Viall was engag« in goldmining at Thames bef®* taking up land at Duck Creek, Mehg; rangi River in 1885. For many jars he ferried children residing on u* river between Mahurangi Heads ana the Warkworth School. A talffljj® musician, he played the organ at n* Methodist Church, Thames, andla the Warkworth Methodist Cnarcn. He is survived by his wife and low sons.

MR. THOMAS G. GUMMEB

Well-known in the hardware trade in Auckland, Mr. Thomas Gummer has died at the age I wJ-4 Mr. Gummer was born in and arrived in New Zeatond w his parents in 1863, the family ling at Maungaturoto. On coming Auckland he was employed for sot* time on the newspaper Souutfll Cross before joining the nan»»*r firm of E. Porter and Company^*?. whom he had an unbroken sen. of 52 years when he retired fflj' He was a member of the Congrof tional Church. Mr. Gummer is sw vived by six sons and two daugM»--

MR. F. B. W. BOUSFIELD

(0.c.) WAIROA, this day Organiser of the Reform P^^-Vr 1 . Poverty Bay for 30 ore Frederick Brougham Bousfield has died at a ""®?lJrof 77. Mr. Bousfield was a the late Sir George son of the late Mr. O. in field, first Governmentsurvey __ Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay- .j. at Woodthorpe, he took up work and became well known"' East Coast district asa ! about 60 years. He retired five y a ago. In his younger > daysne g representative footballer for tia Bay, and a first-class runner. gjj the Waikaremoana Road was up, Mr. and Mrs. Bousfield wo« i first couple to go th roughly Mr. Bousfield is survived byj»* WU A one son and three daugW®*™ great-grandson makes the pun i'ation born in the Dominion*