OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 13

OBITUARY

Air. Walter Adams

The death of Mr. Walter Adams, for many years associated with the wellknown brewing firm of Messrs. J. Speight and Co., Dunedin, and later with the New Zealand Breweries, occurred iu Wellington this week. The late Mr. Adams, who was of a geuial and kindly nature, was a well-known and popular man iu Wellington, and he will be missed by a largo number of frleuds in this city. The funeral took place yesterday, and as well as his family a large number of friends paid their last tribute to Mr. Adams. The Rev. Mr. Blathwaite read the burial service, and a number of beautiful floral wreaths bore silent testimony to the esteem in which Mr. Adams was held. Mrs. Mary Jane George The death at the age of 86 occurred at New Plymouth ou Monday of Mrs. Mary Jane George. Both Mrs. George aud her husband, the late Mr. Edwiu George, who died some years ago. were among the first European children born iu Taranaki. Mrs. George was a daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Joseph Parker, who arrived at. New Plymouth by the ship Blenheim in November, 1842. She had one sister, the late Mrs. Edward Bui lot. and one brother, who, as a boy. was killed by the Maoris nt. Omnta al the outbreak of the war in 1860. Mrs. George's mother, who lived in Hine Street when (lie present suburbs of New Plymouth were sparsely sett kll farmlands, kept one of the early infant schools. With her husband, Mrs. George took up land on the Barrett Road, where they went through all the difficulties of pioneering farming. Her parents came to the uew settlement in the Oriental, which arrived in November, 1841.