OBITUARY

Evening Post, Issue 99, 24 October 1934, Page 16

OBITUARY

PASTOR DAVID NIELD

1 The death is announced in his ninetyfirst year of Pastor David Nield, of the Church of God, Wellington. He was born at High Crompton, Oldham, Lancashire, England. His father was a cotton spinner and his mother a handloom weaver of "#elsh parentage. He attended day school, and began work as a half-time "little piecer" in a cotton mill at eight years of age. He became a teacher at a Methodist Sunday school, and learned shorthand, Walking six miles a day to his studies. At twenty ho was secretary to the Ragged Schools at Oldham, and later was employed as bookkeeper. Leaving England for the United States in 1873, h^ forked for three years for a Delaware shipping firm. Then, as a commercial traveller, he toured the British Isles, India, and Ceylon. For three years, ho ran a vegetarian restaurant at Leeds. Por a while he Was ship missionary, and later resumed commercial travelling visiting Australia and Canada, and in 1906 Egypt and. the Holy Land. He -was twice married, on tho second occasion to Miss Rosalind Young, a teacher and musician of Pitcairn Island. Ho' was predeceased by his wife in 1024, and is sur\ rived by three daughters, Mrs. J. Whitehead, Harrowgate, England, Mrs. C. W, Smith, Wellington, and Mrs. H. R. Wood, Moera.