OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 10

OBITUARY

Captain E. Delaney Captain Ernest Delaney, a wellknown resident of Petone, who, until he resigned six months ago, was in the service of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, died yesterday morning. Born in Christchurch in 1886, the late Captain Delaney was educated at the Sacred Heart College, Auckland. He went to sea from Auckland. He served in the West African campaign just after the Boer War, and afterward he. was appointed chief mate of the Empress of Russia. He joined up with the Canadian Artillery when the Great War commenced, and from that body was transferred to the Cimadian Cavalry, and was in the second battle of Ypres with the cavalry. Captain Delaney was next transferred to the Canadian Tank Corps, after which he was appointed adjutant at the Cavalry Training Barracks/it Folkestone, where he remained until the end of the war. In New Zealand he had been actively associated with the Legion of Frontiersmen, being captain of the Waiwhetu Troop. He was a member of the Masonic craft. Captain Delaney joined the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board’s staff on the inception of the board in 1924, and was in charge of the outside gangs doing the early construction work, and continued in the board’s service until ill-health compelled his retirement. He is survived by his mother, widow, and two daughters, aged 13 ami nine years respectively, fire brothers, and one sister. The funeral will leave Petone this afternoon for the Soldiers’ Cemetery. Karori. Mrs. H. Heron Mrs. Harriet Heron, who has died at Roxburgh, at the age of 97, was the first woman to camp in Gabriel’s Gully when, the famous gold rush set in, says a Dunedin message. She arrived in New Zealand in 1858. and when storekeeping after the rush, had a visit from tlie infamous Mnnngntapu bushrangers, Burgess. Kelly. Levy, and Sullivan.