OBITUARY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11827, 7 January 1933, Page 4

OBITUARY

HISS DIXIE O’MEARA Deepest regret will bo felt by tho many friends of Air and Mrs Iva k O’Meara, 0 f Bushmcre, to hear that*' the death has occurred of their daughter, Miss Kathleen Dixie O’Meara, at the ago of 15 years. She was m normal health until Thursday evening, but then developed alarminosymptoms and passed away within a few hours. Of a most happy and engaging disposition, Miss O’Meara m s very well known and. popular at Kaiti, • when her parents lived there until’ four years ago and later at Bushmere. To' tho parents and other members of tho family, tho deepest sympathy in their very sad loss will bo extended. The funeral will leave the late residence, Bushmere, at 2 p.m. to-day (Saturday) for Taruheru cemetery. MR. A. A. NICHOLSON. The death occurred, at Nuhaka on Thursday evening, of Mr. Albert Alexander Nicjiolson, a Great War veteran who was overseas ' from October, 1915, until well after the Armistice. Since September last Mr Nicholson had been engaged with a mate on a scrub-cutting contract in the Nuhaka River valley. During the earlier portion of Thursday he appeared in his usual health, but later he lay down in his tent and When another went there late in the afternoon he found that Mr. Nicholson had passed away. He was in his 37th year. The late Mr. Nicholson, who Hailed originally from Nelson, had a splendid record of war service. He enlisted from Nelson and left New Zealand with the First Rifle Brigade in. October, 1915. He took part in the Senussi campaign, in Egypt and then went to France where, in September, 1916. he was very seriously wounded in the first battle of the Somme. After 13 months in the AYnlton-on-Thames Hospital, he returned to the front and carried right on until the Armistice. He went to Germany with the army of occupation and spent .some time in the alien land. Returning to New Zealand, Mr. Nicholson took up a returned soldier’s farm in the King Country, working it for some four years, and then corning to this district. He was unmarried and his parents are dead, bm he is survived by three sisters. Mesdames Walker (Lyndhurst Street. Gisborne). Litchfield (Waerenga-o-kuri) and Thom (Invercargill), and one brother in the South Island, to all of whom Beep sympathy in their loss will be r-i vended. The funeral will leave Cochrane’s private mortuary chapel, William Street, ar 1.45 p.rn. to-day (Saturday! for Taruheru Cemetery. MR BERNARD ROY HARVEY Following on an illness extending over three- months, the death occurred. at Cook Hospital yesterday, ci Mr Bernard Roy Harvey, husband oi Mrs Eliza Florence Harvey, of Ormond. Other illnes’se-s, following c r blood-poisoning, brought about the end. The late Air Harvey .was born at Whsngaroa. North Auckland, 48 yeaf: ago. out during the last- 22 years it* has been farming at Ormond, when he was very popular with ah vritl whom he c-ame in. contact. He rise made many Gisborne friends, and al will join in extending to the Widou and family or five the deepest sympathy in their sad loss. The rartnl} comprises two sons. Alessrs Bsrrmrc and Alfred Harvey, and three daugh tors, Alisses Ethel, Kathleen am Jean Harvey The funeral will leave Haismanu private mortuary chapel at- 2.15 p.m to-morrow (Sunday) arriving at- Orm ond cemetery at- 3 o'clock.