OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 50, 28 February 1923, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR. GEORGE BARNARD.

Mr. George Barnard, one of the earliest employees of the "Evening Post" printing department, and ■■ well known amongst old identities of Wellington, died at his residence, 37, Brighton street, Island Bay, early last evening. Mr. Barnard was taken ill on Friday, and succumbed shortly after an operation for an internal complaint. He was born in Taranaki street in 1858, and joined "The Post" as an apprentice, remaining with the firm for about fifty years. At the end of 1918, on medical advice, he gave up his position, and he was pensioned off. His eyesight, however, later improved sufficiently to enable him to serve" at the Government Printing Office for a while. In his early experience on "The Post" he served under the lato Mr. John Blundell's father, and he was also a contemporary of the Hon. G. W. Russell, who was in the employ of the firm for some years. The late Mr. Barnard is survived by his second wife, who lives at Island Bay; Mrs. H. M'Kenzie, of Palmerston North, and Mrs. Stewart Vickers, of Tasman street, were the issue of his first marriage ; and his other children are Miss H. Barnard, of Island Bay Mr. George Barnard, of Tasman street, and Mr. J. L. Barnard, of Hataitai. Another son, Ernest, was kiled on active service in tke late war. The funeral will take place at the Sydney street Cemetery at 4,o'clock to-morrow afternoon.