DEATH OF A LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR.
[■V TELEGRAPH— ?11t33 ASSOCIATION.] NELSON, This Day. Hon. V. Trask, AI.L.C, drooped dead outbide his own les-idence at <'iic o'cloik to-day. He had been about town just previously, apparently in his usual health, talking to friends, and he worked in his butcher's shop tub morning in tho best of spirits. [The Hon. Francis Trask was first called to the Legislative Council on 18th March, 1903, and was reappointed only .i few weeks nj;o for another term. 'He was born in .Meiriott, in Somersetshire, England, in 1840, and iv 1860 came out in the barque Minorca t-> Chript church, where he went on to the Olago goldfields. He then journeyed U> N'^son, where ho has resided ever since. In 1878 he was elected to h seat iv the borough council, and hold office as councillor till 1890, when he was fiigt elected Mayor, an office he held for ten successive year*.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 8
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