OBITUARY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 January 1923, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MR. HUGH H. BEETHAM. M.ISTERTON, Jan S William Beetham, of Frimley H iU Philip Horsley,. of Hull aid Do? tire lulls lllto the valley of Wainuioru and thence clou,, to Brancepeth The route across the Rimutakas was unfit for stock. The father in 1856 took up ?aw T f ? n?v,?. eor S«» and brother-in-SJr llh*™> founded the fin* or \V-jinain3 and Beetham, securine * number of properties, on wh:llLy •^tabhshed the well-known Herefo^ | and Shorthorn herds, and SoShdown ! aomney^ and Lincoln flocks. XwaX lent t P tiri d frOm the fi™ and . went to live in England. The other ' i ?S ncr *s idis^ d tiTe "wd^ors ; ™*> ,and HiiHh retained the Branc*! •»th homestead ,and 16,00a. acres _ \lr. Beetham was a sterling sett Tar i•* a public spirited type. I n " 1868 *~4> j look a commission in the militia A*. + >ne time he was captain of a Master {ton company. He was one of tS 19 1 Clnh Crf S °l- ti c i.firilt Wairar *Pa Jockey , Club, of which he was steward in 1868 ■ -id subsequently judge. He was I ! ystice of the peace and a mem Wot' At »U sm£ commission unedr the old whr.ll r> ? ef tham's Hfe was almost Sir' 06 tO tho agricultural-« 3 pastoral industry, an d more than one movement, notably the Wellington Meat Export Company, had in hfm " 7IS"w Cn- mp + lm\ He was resident of the Wellington A. and P. Society, and the licensing commission under the old He was always held jn the ' hiehest SS?? t t¥o^ hout th« district. Kg never taking an active part i n W government he never failed to sp^ He SS dli cr lelkly °n Public mat^r« Sff Jv J or'g remembered throughj out the distnct for his. personal kind- ■ ani Ullobtr»sive generosity. ' +h« « "f? 3"7, carried in 1879 Ruth, the third daughter of Mr. C. D Bid! 1 ff;*l^ a f,an^" of tw« «ons and .two daughters-Messrs Ralph Beetham Orengard Horsley BeethaS ,gVlorland, Mrs. M. Bethell (Culver^ I den), and Mrs. Xicholls (Brqgli Cali- ! forma) O f Mr. Beetham's^ Mothers and sisters, Mr. Richmond Beetham gate, Mr Geo. Beetham, a member of , Parhament from 1877 to 1890, Mr. I Joshua Beetham /Argentina), Mr Norman Beetham Mrs. T. C. Williams, and Mrs, Williams (Hawke's Bay) are Jprtn'f-M M ni,WV H" Beetham «£■- ,Tl m' M£ S1^ 8 Beetham'YOpakn, and Mrs. C. X. Fitzroy (Hawke's *ay)