OBITUARY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 3

OBITUARY

The death has occurred of Mrs, A. E. Armitage, ,a well-known Auckland resident;-,at the age of 78. Mrs. Armitage , was born in Newfoundland, where her father, the Rev. J. Waterhouse, was a Methodist missionary. Mr. Charles Downie, a pioneer of tlie West Coast, and familiarly known as “the grand old man” of the Buller district, has died, aged 96,. Mr, Bownie . spent practically a lifetime in Murchison.

Ai : . Cambridge message reports the death of Mrs. Mary Hicks, one of the best-known pioneers of Cambridge, aged 82. She had lived in the district for almost 60 years. With her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. John Allan, Mrs. Hicks came to New Zealand in 1863 in the ship Annie Wilson. The death has occurred in Hamilton of Mrs. Albina Breen, aged 93 widow, of the late Mr. Peter Breen. Mrs. Breen was born in Kerry, Ireland, and she came to New Zealand with her husband 70 years ago. For 66 years they lived at Oamaru.