OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17445, 4 May 1922, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MRJOIINPOW. •; : -iixTJohn. Pow; of "Ferniehirst,'/ >:Pa*riafc3jis, who died on SaturdaJ' > wdi' bom" at Jedburgh, • Scotland, afcout 82. jftimi ago, and wflfl ft* toWhstoari of the lat^ 1 Mr George Ruthferford, the fatliaW' 'of the:'family of that name, alsS of ; ; , the .'. -late Mx Dauglas,. of - tHawora, and of Messrs Uobh and Robert \ Tinline. Pow reached iZeir; land neftrly 60 yearsago, beingaccompanited'by his wife, who waa a daughter <Jf the -la&'ltfr Ifobert Tinline, and; with 1 Mfc Tinhne;: at "Forniehirst,?' where -their namep had becbnie a , hbusehold wotd. --J.Sfrß Pox?'. pr&t. deceased her husband .by years. It mays he allsin--1 cerity • these wel© a* noblff couple,-.and Mr Bow's name is honoured throughout fho Kajkoura and Amuri diajtricta i aif a man. of sterling worth. < l and wr : ♦ tegrltyl * :He had during the last 25 years- been with th«> public life of bgt3i a* aoouncillor arid as a- member of the Agricultural atids'Paßtdi'al Association, ~.,Th»!s latter boSy: bwes !niuol|i, to' • his kmcllyi .financialCassistance, arid although, he . wai}. a life lumber,'■ h® neverxorgbfc'.tpgivtehig'^^cials.'Vand the "A6s6ciatioii his oeiniße. file U ate JJr .a grown-up ■ family-vtihese being.< Mrs' Gunn/ (relict of th^'late v I>p. Guirui); 4 Mr? (wife- ' of 1 .Mjv' Robert" 1 . Mounsey, of WharemriScßoolj OKrifitohuriih), and .Mr Gavin James Pow, of ogether with general * ', ■ MR WtilAM LAN?). - Ml*' WiUiain : curbed at his * 'on Tu6^ay, r ,wa9 'ih^ai'hin*^ tieth V«»r." He Ws ,bo#n ■ in an A his wife and-' five : ytonj£ children jji Jlie: Ship Monarch in September, 1870. ;HpconimfencedmbusinessasAbootmilteT in Armagh street, lived "until tbo time aL his death. He had eri--j'oyed gocfl healtih. until about sis -yeaKl ago/ Jfe. h®9®m® a- sufferer iroraj, neuritis. ' The deceased was a of. the Order" of Foresters. ~ He tmil-Mrs-Lane/who survives him, celebrated their : diamond*.wedding four yejil's agoi The family oomprisea two sous and sis. : d^ughtera^—Mcsms W. H. Lane, As. E,; rLaiie, ?Mrs >F. W. Cooper,. Mis James gillie, Mrs-Henry: Smith, &nd';Msse& K/ 'Lane, E. Lano,, and .May v • * % M?t P~METZ. f , v \Mr P. .v.Met^' a.well-known resident, - 'of Christchurph, died last nightafter ail illness of days *Mjr Metz-was manager for Tabart and • Company,: but for* many past Jie'lipd been in busiuess'oa his own account, in Armagh jffljj (eaves a widow, abd one Russell Joseph, of Melbourne, who is.at present on-her way to Cliristchurch. : ' ! f ' The depth occurred *at Kumeroa ofii an 'Old Nap'or? hoy, Mr John BurttoiM agefl • 65. tfe was educated Ke>joined. staff>of the 3f«w. Zeal: l&na. Basur»»oe. Company. 'Ho wii;i vsent Africa by the cqmptoyj an 3. while there' joined.-the army'arid , wont through tha JJoor War return-1 ing .to Kew in 1906. Lik« - many "forgot his age, joined'' f the 13th JEfefiiforcenients in Hhe Greali I "War,' .>andfe Vveut through tl#<engage4!J ment *.of' J Passcliendaclc, front' the #4} fects of ich- he • never recovered. ,*;f i ! >;BIr John Donaldson, who died at;3ths.' .Lawrence. at the aga of '76 :- was a' worthy cxainplo of the pld. digger types. Hfe wis born at Fotlar, m und was a sailor till about tweiity-fivfe/yeaTS of age, settled in iNew : Zealand as a : mipfer. He forked on Gardiiier's dig-; :gings;;at.ißeaumont, and in later years; followed th<s. dredging in ;iiig ak, master,. and having chtirgp in' turn of the Happy Vallev, AVeatherstoncs, Waipori, and Tuapeka flat! dredges. Ho them took a turn on the [<' •West Coast, .afterwards returning to ! work Adates b dredge at Waitahiina. |;