OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17428, 12 April 1922, Page 10

OBITUARY.

- . MR C. EUDD. Mr C. Rudd, who died at Greendale recently, arrived in New Zealand with his parents' in' 1866 and settled at Greendale. Ten years later he returned to England, where he remained for three y«ars and married Mies Blanche Fisher, of South Cave, Yorkshire. Mr Rudd, who took his share of , pioneering wort, was for 21 years a member of the Courtenay Road Board and a member and chairman for inany years of the Greendale School Commit-) tee. He was one of the founders of the Greendale Methodist Church, and one of the oldest local preachers of the denomination in the Dominion. He was patron of the Greendale Cricket <3ub and president of the Malvern Cricket Association at the time of hi 3 death. He leaves a widow and family of two sons and five daughters. ' The funeral, which took place at the Greendale cemetery, was very largely attended. The pall-bearera were Messrs C. H. Adams, P. Clinton. P. G. Early, and H. B. Shipley, and the burial service was conducted by the Rev. J. Guy, very old friend of the family, assisted by the Rev. A. K. Fowlea. Wreatho were sent by Mr and Mrs C. H. Adams and family, Mr and Mrs Cluzas and boys, Mr and Mrs E. Ridgen and family, Mr and Mrs F. Cullen and family, Mr and Mrs Donald GiUondere, Mr and Mrs Robert Reid, Mr and Mrs C. G. Jarman, Mrs Burton Shipley and family, Messrs A. W Smith and sons, the manager and staff of Dalgety and Co., Mrs Hardy (Lyndhurst), the Lyndhurst School Committee, teachers and children, Miss Ethel' Parker, Miss J. Sloan, Greendale Cricket Club, Greendale Tennis Club, and the Early family.

The death of another old colonist, Mr Albert John Brown, took place on Monday at Westland Hospital, where he had been an inmate for a number of years. Deceased Was well known, on the Ross-Hokitika road, when he kept the accommodation house known as ''The Half-way House." He later resided at Rimu. He was 82 years of age.