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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 25 June 1912, Page 7

J. T. Smart, a settler at Longbush, Gladstone, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by cutting Ms throat. He left home to muster slieep, and "being absent a long time a ten-year-old son xvas sent to find him, and discovered the body near a clump of scrub. Deceased leaves a wife and seven children. He recently exchanged his farm for one .further north. No cause has yet been assigned for the deed. The body was brought to Carterton at 4 o'clock this morning. Entries for Gillies and Nalder's Kaponga sale appear in another column.