A VETERAN'S DEATH.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6711, 13 June 1916, Page 3

A VETERAN'S DEATH.

When proceeding to town yesterday afternoon "Mr C. Gunson discovered Mr 7. Ransley lying dead alongside the load just in front of Mr G< W. Brown's residence on Devonport Road. He immediately informed the Police and Constable O'Neill proceeded to the spot and called Dr Stuart, who pronounced life to be extinct. Constable O'Neill then had the body removed to deceased's late home at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Devonport Road.

The late Mr Ransley was a wellknown figure about town, having for many years been Sexton for the Cemetery Trustees, and had resided in Tauranga for over fifty years. He was 81 years of age, and was born at Westminster, London,. At twenty years of age he went to sea and was engaged in the merchant service in the Crimea during the war. In 1851 be was on the Victorian Goldfields, later coming to New Zealand. He fought in various engagements during the Maori War as a member of the Ist Waikato Regiment, and took part in the engagement at Te Ranga in 1864. Mr Ransley, who never married, hid no relatives in New Zealand.

In connection with the funeral, which hasjbeen arranged to leave deceased's late residence, Devonport Road, to-morrow at 2 30 Col Ward will be glad if as manyofficers and members of the forces who can will fall in with him at the hour and place named to pay the last tribute of resprct to the Jjeeeased veteran.