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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 June 1927, Page 5

BUSINESS NOTICES. A fine Matapu '‘straight lease” is advertised on the leader page by W. H. and A. McGarry, Eltham.

The death occurred at Dunedin on Friday of William Lawrence Simpson, one of Otago’s earliest colonists. ' Deceased, who was in his 90th year; was born in Kintore, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and came to Port Chalmers in January, 1863... in the ship Ben ‘Lomond. Shortly after landing he entered the Government service as a clerk and receiver of gold revenue on the Otago goldfields, and was afterwards appointed warden and resident magistrate. He continued his service as magistrate and warden in Lawrence, Clyde, and other parts of Otago for 16 years, and was appointed resident magistrate at Dunedin in 1879. This position he held till December, ISS2, when he retired to take up the position of manager of the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company of New Zealand at the time of its formation. After 38 years of continuous service, Mr. Simpson relinquished that position at the end of 1918 owing to advancing years. Mr. Simpson was one of the liquidators appointed by the Supreme Court in the historic case' '.of .tlfe liquidation of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand.