OBITUARY.
AIIT,. JOHN HARRINGTON. After an illness .of two months, Mr. ■John Harrington, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Hawera, died this morning, aged 54 years. Mr. Harrington had i one leg amputated at the knee, in an attempt to- save his system from blood poisoning, but without success. An frish-Anieriean by birth, Mr. Harrington was educated in' Birmingham. He readied New Zealand in 1878 from America, and took up sheep-farm-ing with his parents in Central Otago. After his marriage in 1997 he entered into business on the West Coast of the South Island. Thence he moved to Waitara, to Wellington, and to Hawera, where he had resided for the last ten years, the whole time as licensee of the Railway. Mr. Harrington was keenly interested in the breeding of bulldogs and had been a, successful exhibitor at various shows, He is sur'vived bv a widow and five children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1925, Page 7
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148OBITUARY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1925, Page 7
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