OBITUARY
MR R. 11. M ERLANG.
i Rress / ssuciu Lieu V WELLINGTON'. ON. :)]. The .death l m . s ueeurred of Mr. Robert Henry Medium!, a' well-known bonier ol 11 1 o Thermion Club, in his liiucticUi year. His parents came io'Ncw Zealand in the ship Amelia Thompson and lauded at New Ri.\ month in I.V'-11. Mr. Midland was born in JS-J I. As a buy he was apprenticed to the “Taranaki News,’’ and later became overseer ol the “‘Taranaki Herald-” He came to A cllington to enter the Government Rrinting Office, and retired in IPOD alter 85 years' service. Mr. Med la nd saw a good deal of Hie Maori wars. When only 10 .'cars o! age he- joined the Taranaki Ril'ie Volunteers, in which lie served for live years. He went with an expedition to recover the bodies after tlq Whitecliil’n nmssiicres in February. ISODMiris was the occasion on which a party ol Waikato natives came down to the Taranaki •district ami massacre. (I the Rev. Mr. H htic-ie.v. two military settlers, .Messrs. Milne and Rieli. arils, and Lieut. Gascoigne, bis wifeand three children. Tile block-house and wharves bad been burned down, and the natives bad disappeared when the expedition ariived.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12090, 1 November 1933, Page 7
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