OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 168, 12 April 1935, Page 12

OBITUARY

Mr. James E. Mclvor The death in his eightieth year of Mr. James Ernest Mclvor has removed from Hastings a well-esteemed citizen of half a century’s standing, states a Special Service messafe. Born in Belfast in 185 G, he went to Auckland with his parents when only nine years old. Entering the shipbuilding trade there as a youth, he later succumbed for a while to the lure of the Australian gold rushes. On his return to New Zealand in ISS2 he went to Hawke’s Bay. where he had resided ever since. His first engagement was as manager of McHardy’s tallow works at Awatoto, passing from that in ISSG to establish, in partnership with the late Mr. J. Wyatt, a successful butchery business in Hastings, from which be retired in 1899. Though he served the town for some years as a borough councillor, it was in connection with the sport of racing that Mr. Mclvor was perhaps most widely known. From the time of his arrival in the district he took an active interest in it, himself training and running horses of his own, the last to carry his colours being Simonette. For something like 20 years, too, be was a member of (be committee of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club. In the old trotting days he acted as both handicapper and starter for the Hawke’s Bay Trotting Club, when its meetings were held at Stortford Lodge. In his younger days in Auckland he had also been a keen yachtsman. He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Brennan, three sons, Messrs. J. E., A. 8., and U. D. Mclvor, all of Hastings, and two daughters, Mrs. R. Halliburton, of Te Awamutu, and Mrs. J. Falloon. of Bowlands Bideford. Hastings.