OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 16626, 8 January 1918, Page 5

OBITUARY

The; death occurred recently at Taa-.wiqa Of Mr A. C. H. Tovey-Tcnnant, KQ the age of 84 years. Born at Montrap in 1833, ho entered the British Army, KHfnug the TOth. Regiment, and securing hi.i. ;rommission at tho age of 18. In 1859 hj ried, and leit almost immediately"' for India. From India ho came direct tr- No v Zealand, arriving at Auckland in.th-y shin Daniel Rankin in 1861. He saw ..nucb active service in tho Waikato and Taranaki districts. ' Mrs Burdekin, wife of Mr E. B. kin, of the Public Trust Office, Vf ton, died at Nelson last week. Decsased, who was the second daughter of tlii. late Jlr J. B. Sadd, lived in Nelson for ‘.many years, and subsequently at Napie,;? and Wellington. She had two sons—Seiv'eantmajor Cyril Burdekin, of the Head Staff, London, and Sergeant Hugli S-ude-kin, of the 34th ‘Reinforcements. MR <1 R, PARATA, M.P. Word was received this morning the death at Wellington of Mr Charles )y,akatauhake Parata, M.P. Tho who was a son of tho late Hon. Tamo I*Aata, was horn in Puketeraki, and receive** his eduation in Dunedin, first at the Ngsmal School and afterwards by private tnsV.inn. He was for some years in the Native Jtj.nds Department in Wellington, but i$T the time of his election as representations' of the Southern Maoris in the Hodse p; Representatives—which took place oQ his lather’s elevation to the Upper Hou^—ho was in business for himsell as an £3late agent. “Charlie” Parata, as ho was generally called, was of a genial ter*-(icra-ment, and immensely popular. Ho vsas a very keen bowler, and was to have sP’gjpcd the Te Hiwi team at the champiiTsliip tournament in Dunedin this week, Ho was also a member of the Thorndon fowling Club. A few days ago his here received word from him lie would he unable to come down, to a poisoned leg. Mr Parata leaves a ypfdow (who was Miss Asher, of Taurangni and three children—two boys and a girl. He was in his fifty-fourth year. A Nelson telegram states :—The tfcath occurred suddenly to-day of Mr TV-rnas Field, founder ol the Wilkcns and Field Hardware Company, aged 85. He y-’as a well-known citizen of Nelson ant; the West Coast in the early days. Tl;o deceased was on a visit from Auckland, C.-hero he had been living for some years tpast. the father of Mr Thomas !i ; ield^