OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22824, 25 September 1939, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR W. H. TURNER Mr William Henry Turner, who died recently at his home, Limehurst. Waikari, was a resident of the district for more than 60 years. Bom in 1853 in Massachusetts, United States of America. Mr Turner first came with his parents to New Zealand in 1863. After a short stay, the family left for Sydney en route to California, where they settled for 18 months, but finally returned to New Zealand about 1873. After being for a time in the North Island, where they found conditions still unsettled from the Maori wars, Mr Turner settled in the Waikari Valley, where he first took up land in 1877. In 1882 he acquired the first portion of his Limehurst property, which he subsequently increased until it comprised about 5000 l acres. Mr Turner was’ married in 1882 to Miss Lewis, of -Montrose, who died some 10 years ago, and is survived by a son, Mr P. A. Turner, of Limehurst, and a daughter, Miss Thelma Turner, of Christchurch; Last year Mr Turner completed 40 years’ unbroken attendance at the Christchurch Show. As a young man, Mr Turner earned some renown as a

swimmer, and on one occasion rescued from drowning a man who had gone overboard from a vessel entering Akaroa harbour. Though he did not take a very active part in public life, Mr Turner was a supporter of most of the social and sports bodies in the district. In his younger days he took a keen interest in the old Amur! Mounted Rifles, and had been a member of the Waikari Anglican Church Vestry and the Waikari Cemetery Board, and he was a director of the Waikari Flour Milling Company. At the opening of the new Waikari Post Office a few years ago he gave the clock which was erected on the front of the building. MR D. L. POPPELWELL tPSESS ASSOCIATION TZLZGHAM.)

GORE, September 24. The death has occurred of Mr Dugald Louis Poppelwell, who was Mayor of Gore for 10 terms. He was a progressive administrator, and works carried out during his early terms included the construction of the Gore traffic bridge, the introduction of drainage, water, and lighting schemes. He was a steward of the Gore Racing Club for 42 years and was connected with numerous organisations at various times. He was first president of the Gore Chamber of Commerce and a recognised authority on flora and fauna and Maori traditions. He secured Gore’s large bush domain at the Hokonui Hills from the Government. He was the senior member of the Gore Bar and president for a period of the Southland branch of the Law Society. He is survived by his widow and a family of three sons and two daughters. MR CHARLES W. CLIFFORD Cabled advice has been received in Christchurch of the death last Friday, at Market Drayton. England, of Mr Charles William Clifford, only surviving brother of Sir Walter Clifford, Garden road, Fendalton, and of the late Sir George Clifford, formerly of Stony hurst, North Canterbury. Mr Clifford was bom in Wellington, the fourth son of the.late Sir Charles

Clifford, Bart., who arrived in Wellington from England in 1843, and who was the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in New Zealand and member for Wellington frqm 1854 till 1861. Mr Charles Clifford, like his brother. Sir Walter Clifford, was educated at Beaumont College. Berkshire. Jle married Sicely, daughter of the late Sir Humphrey de Trafford. and for many years he lived at Market Drayton. He paid several visits to New Zealand; on the last occasion about four, years ago, when he came to Christchurch to attend the wedding of his youngest son, Mr Roger Clifford, , he was accompanied by his wife and ' daughter. Mr Clifford is survived by his widow, . three sons—Mr Gilbert Clifford, the , Rev. Father Lewis Clifford. S.J., both i Of England, and Mr Roger Clifford, of ■ Ashley Hay. Waipara, New Zealand — , and two daughters—the Hon. Mrs ' Southall and Miss Rosamond Clifford. 1 His second son, Mr Walter Clifford* : was killed in the Great War, i