OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17019, 16 December 1920, Page 7

OBITUARY.

. _4 __ The death, has occurred at Wanganui of Mr W. J. Carson (eldest son oi tne Hon. Gilbert Carson;, wiio was lor years secretary of tlie Wanganui Education Board, a&d of late secretary to tho Wanganui Giris' College Board of Governors. Mr William Webby Hadfield, whoso ■ death occ/urred a few dtjj's ago, arrived in Nelson in 1838 in tho Robert Small, with his parents. His father, the late -Mr Frederick Brown Hadneld, tet up in business as a chemist, and was known throughout the province. Deceased went to tho Wairau in I860; where lie was in tho service of the late Mr Goultcr for about three years; he then joined in several goid rushes of the middle sixties, among them Black's Point, on ( tho Buller, which was reached then by a Maori canoe via Waiman'garoa. He saw some l<\ely times on the Coast during the riots of that period. lie took up litnd. .it Awarua, on the coast, between Motu- . oka and Takakn, about 18133, where ho . nfterwards settled down as a- small farmer and boatbuilder, where he lived until the last few , months. ile leaves three drmjrhters, Mrs W. Winter (Awarua), Mrs J. A. Adams (Richmond), and Mrs J S. McLaren (Nelson), and five sons. F. G., W. V., and -W. H. i Hadfield. of Awarua; D. C. Hadfiekl, the amatfiir scu'lin^ , champion, of Auek- ' ' land: and Mr R. H. Hadfield (Tnknka). I "Mrs T. R. Fiphcr (Dur.edin), and Mrs < J. B Green, (Waiptifcurnu). aro sisters t of deceased.- and Messrs O. Hadfield 3 fChristchurnM nnd T. Hadfield (Auckland) are brothers.