OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20806, 16 March 1933, Page 3

OBITUARY.

- .- MR J. W. TAYLOR. I lie death lias occurred at. his residmee, Auckland, of Mr John William 'Javier, in liis seventy-fourth year. He arrived in New Zealand 68 vcars ago, rta a boy. J1 i~; father was ~the lirst mine, manager of the JJrunner coal mmcs, near Groyutoiitb, in tiic early \sixties. l<ur 3i> _)«ara Mr Taylvr lived on tin! West L'u.'is,:. 110 spent sojm; year* with the Railway Department, eventually n'M-iiiny from the sun ice when occupjinj; the position oßstatumtnr.stcr aL GnyinnuUi. J n 1903 ho joined the Health Department yt WcllinytMj and in J 90S ho was transferred to Auckland. Ife retired from the department m 19'JG, hiiieo when ho lived in Homo Hay. Mr Taylor is survived by hi; v.'ife three .sons, Mr V. J. Taylor, c-f To Araroa, and Messrs F, S. and A. G. Taylor, of Auckland, and i,vo daughters, Miss Taylor, of Nukualofa, and M:\ : , LinetuMn, . of Mount F.dcn. Air Joseph Taylor, r,f Cohden, GreynioMtli. «!r"> is well known in mining oir'-lc;. is a brother. MR J. 1,. URQUHART. (i!U-ir.r> I'Rf.s* AsrociA nns -?r m.F.c/riWi; t rubor Am —corvaifiFn.) LONDON. March 11. 'J'ho ileaih has occurred of Mr John Leslie Lfquhart. mining engineer, lie wild chairman of the Rosso-Asiatic t'oiwolid ilcd Mining Trust, and of Mount Isu, Mines, and a director of Xew Guinea Gotdfieids.