OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17227, 18 August 1921, Page 5

OBITUARY.

I J, ;;.%?; ME JOHN FRIZZELL. ■" I ■ ' r-The late Mr, John Frizzell, an early I ; Wttler in Canterbury who died at his I kie residence "Tu Mautanga" Madras street, was born in County Tyrone, R "> Ireiandi in 1837. He came to New Zeai land in 1863. and was almost immediate- :■ : ly'appointed manager at Wai-iti, \ :Bwannanoa^—this -station being then | " owned by Messrs Hillyard and "Wood. ? Shortly afterwards ho purchased a seo- £ '■■ ■ Hon at West and built tberel ] oh one of the first Wooden houses on the ? Plains*" The house still stands on what \ '■'..' Vii now known as Leggeiy Farm. In I ; 1866 he married Miss Sarah Wilson, the f wedding being the first solemnised in St. I : James's Church, Cußt. Until leaving I £■' ihedistrict he remained a loyal support-. I y er of .the rehurcn,. ry l»iriga vestryman I ; for **greater,. part of the time.. He; was 1.. n 'the first ' vVest .Eyreton 5 School' Committee, taking his seat in i'■■'' 1871; and at 'the first' meeting was aj> ' ', pointed "Education..Ri^^^^^^ £ member ■■'.tdr.abifut twenty-' ?|MveyeAiß,,sparing; neither, mpneynpr, 7s|§me\ra ; :ihe interests of the chHdren. He^ -Sfpobk a great interest fn, agriculture and. |i§*tbraT dearly loved a; S||fpl3 'horse, and ,was a, successful exhibiboth the 'Northern land .Metropolis ■illfppShows. Iri.lflOO k he paid a visit to and on returning decided tfjp&retire, settling down in Ohristchurch. : #He':was' a man of :■ sterling character. ' """" pectod: by* large, circle of 3 leaves a widow and'two ib; 'mourn ; : their loss. • ' The I'his'late residence on Tues-j-'Cnurch of England ceme- ; halting en route at his old short, period,' thence to St.: urofci^where.aJshort" aeryice; teii by the Rev. Jaa,' Hay. i.Addinell played the <*Fun- " The hearers were Messrs; pIL G.;Orysen, R. Dawson,' Horrell; sons: of -his joldest; ioT esjCeem in which; the Tate c .was: held; evidenced by number ' that attended the id by the many Beautiful tej».;Md;:on the grave. iown andl Tngnly -'respected the West Coast for-upwards suddenly at' AnckidaVi.'in the person of Mr i' Howell Angel; Thedeceaswtecl srbn* the : Vidtonan thosei of 'Dunstan Magd), ilrirds;" joipneybd -to .the ;. *After : tie hurly-burly of jibe conducted,a -general trough '■ of Br unnerton' for fears. At tKe thiie pfKbis ia bn a visit to his daughtei' Bon). He was a native of iglandi? Messrs F. Angel SpA, iPViAhgel (Hastings), *1 (Gxey Vauey) are sons and ' and Mrs P. Peilon■: (Anck--rt^;bl;.tl». ; deceaße«Lv'' ;.;■■_. ELLINGTOfN. August 17. W: Aitken, es-M.ir., and Argyleshire in to-day. Both aa a private asa public servant he wul missecf in Wellington. ,As an'in*the"employment of a irm, 'hb. proved himself go 'and capable that he was e charge of the firm's bus> spjoneas m ;i x)ndon. In 1882 he came to and' founded the mercan'vAitken and Wilson. .In elected Mayor of was Mlpid'an^'^hb'.'following year he defeated migttrm :SK!Wiiford.- He was also Mayor §SW ; l9#?Wheh he-retired' In 1902 he and: was returned illWthe head of the ;poU; 1nv1905, he Migii- returhed for and called to the Legislative of office only A bachelor of a modest and xUsposition, he never put him-! liselTjhfthe limelight of but he was possessed, of and that in all things a man, to be trusted; He was gtebneibf the jnost prominent Presovterl®}Masm. the North Island, and perhaps in llSiwS Zealand, and his unostentatious >f ipMtosity to the' church and to the Kkeep his memory green for # Bunyr-a* year. r H© was a director in s MieTei^ ; ;important,enterorisesi and big IPpicompanies,;one of the founders or tne and a prominent suptepprter of the Y.MXJ.A. -.He-*™; b% supported the principles of the Bible_in and Prohibition For pfjlsthe past-few years he suffered from uiunder which he grew more and |§§f'iabre-frßil.: : ■-■ :'-'-' :< ":."'■■".'. '