MR. WILLIAM HAY.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1923, Page 2

MR. WILLIAM HAY.

Another Maori War veteran passed away at the Veterans' Home, Onehunga, on Tuesday in the person of Mr. William Hay, 83 years of. age, who lias been an inmate of the home since 1906. A native of Glasgow, Scotland Mr. Hay came to New Zealand as a young man, and enlisted in the cavalry volunteers in Taranaki, under Captain Mace, in 1860. He was engaged as a dispatch rider, arid remained with the volunteers for over six years, during which there were no less than 22 engagements in the Taranaki district. The deceased veteran was present at many of these, including the Allans-Hill ambuscade, which brought 1500 of ihe enemy on to the field. He was alao present at most of the engagements between New ' Plymouth and Opunake, ■ including an encounter at Murtiiakai, whon the Queen's forces routed the Maoris. He was awarded the New Zealand medal, and was later the'recipient of a "grant of 50 acrea oil. land. After he left the army, Mr. Hay took up farming in Turanaki, but at the time of the. White Cliffs murders he wa3 warned to leave his farm and lake his mother and sisters away This so disheartened -him that he went to the South Island, where he engaged in stock driving and shepherding until the end of the last century. Mr. Hay was unmarried.