NORMANBY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 25 April 1914, Page 5

NORMANBY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.')

Constable Hadler, of Normanby, has been on leave for the last few weeks to his father's home at Amberley, Canterbury. He suffered a severe Joss last week, when his father, Mr C. H. Hadler. a very old colonist, died very suddenly. aged 83 years. Mr Hadler was born in Rodal, Germany, on May 27t"h. 1830, and brought up to country" life. He came to Lyttelton in 1856 by the shin Egmont, on which the late Bishop Harper was also a passenger. • Mr Hadler settled in the Amberley district, where he purchased his farm in 1866. His property, 168 acres of freehold, was reclaimed from its wild state and developed into a fine farm.