OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17832, 3 August 1923, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR E. GOODALL. CPBESS ASSOCIATION telegeim.) WELLINGTON, August 2. Mr Edward Goodall, manager of JE. Butler, Ltd., died suddenly on Wednesday night. Earlier in the evening he attended a meeting of the Kelburn Bowling Club of which he was vicepresident, lie had returned to his hotel with a fellow-member, and was making enquiries regarding the health of a. friend when- he collapsed and died almost immediately. A very old colonist, and a veteran of the Maori Wars, passed away at the Auckland Hospital on Monday, in the person of Major John Thompson Large. Major Largo was born in Surrey, England, in September, 1845, and, coming to New Zealand at an early age, completed his education at De Castro's Academy, Wellington, the Rev. Marshall's school at Napier, and the Church of England Grammar School, ParneU. He followed sheep-farming pursuits on the East Coast, and from 1868 to the end of 1871 took part as a volunteer in operations against Te Kooti. In this capacity he was attached to many expeditions sent out from the East Coast, particularly the Ngatikahunganu and Ngatiporou native contingents, and was mentioned in despatches for conspicuous service, later receiving the Maori War Medal. He was appointed to a commission in the Militia in 1872, and passing his military examination in 1885 he was promoted to the rank of captain. In 1904 he was placed on the retired list of Militia, with the rank of major. Major Large was a fine Maori linguist, and for 20 years from 1874 was engaged first as Government interpreter to the Native Land Purchase Department on the East Coast," and afterwards as a licensed interpreter in private practice, generally in the same district. In the year 1880 he purchased the "Wairoa Guardian" newspaper in Hawke's Bay, and was editor and proprietor of that journal until 1892. The late Major Large, in 1898, became a«n officer of the Cook Islands Administration, under the British Resident, the late Lieut.-Colonel Gudgeon, C.M.G., and up to the end I of 1903 was resident agent, chief magis- I trate, customs officer, and president of the Island Council at Aitutaki. He was then transferred to Mangaia, in the same capacity, a position he held for many years.