OBITUARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 3 May 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

MR E. J. RIDDIFORD. BY TELEGRAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION. „ 7 PALMERSTON N May 9 oufthf/- ddif°rd > knowASugh. and Al? Olnmi pn as "King" RWdiford, and the largest payer of taxes, and especially the graduated tax, in Ne* Zealand died yesterday of heart failuTe He tSftStt *»fl nd n? h?T' Basil Fo™yZ I*' Ah^ e at ci 2ht this mornSford * WaS a Sh°ck *° Mr i .^TRiddiford's body will be tak fiTl +^ fine orfl home ** v M + r Ej J- Riddiford was the first child baptised m; New Zealand by BisSp Selwyn and his father, who arrived in We «_?&? 1839 ' bought out with hfm te*. eT? ed at ?**»* ***. thr^ Q RIS? lford three sons and three daughters. He was easily the wealthiest man in New Zealand and hat large areas intact in this and the Wat rarapa districts.