OBITUARY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 267, 12 November 1907, Page 5

OBITUARY.

HENRY REDWOOD

At the ripe age of 86 years, and from no apparent cause other than the decay o'i senility, there -passed away, at the residence of his brother Thomas, on Saturday evening a worthy pioneer and a man of great capacity and strength of purpose in the person of Mr Henry Kedwcod. He had been failing for the last eighteen months, and his end was not unexpected. The deceased was an Englishman, having come out to Nelson with his father in the early forties. The late Mr Henry Redwood, senior, held what was called in those times the JJluff run, being comprised in what are "now known as Vernon, Ugbrooke, and the Wither Hills. Mr Henry Redwood, junior, who has now, joined his fathers after a full term of usefulness, was in his youth regarded as on© of the very ■ first gun-shots in Australasia, and his prominent connection with horse-rac-ing gained for him the name "father of the turf." His stable was at Richmond, some miles out of Nelson City, at what was and still is known as Stafford Place. Many a good horse passed through that stable, until it became known amongst followers of the turf throughout the colonies. Following his brothers, Thomas and Charles, the deceased came down to the Wairau in jyp?. Thomas had i been in the district since 1848 managing his father's run; and Charles had come down in the early 'sixties to commence malting. 'me special objective of deceased was the establishment of a flour-mill, and the large and up-to-date manufactory at Spring Creek was the outcome of the late Mr Redwood's undertaking. The mill was | erected with timber privately cut by deceased. Mr Redwood gradually transferred his racing stock from Stafforu Place to the Upper end of his farm at Spring Creek, and he continued taking the keenest interest in the sport. For his great enterprise in connection with agriculture in the early days of the Wairau .the late Mr Henry Redwood gained the colloquial title of the Model Farmer. He it was who introduced the first steam glough to Marlborough and ; and also the first traction^ engine to this province. ** TSvery: "* man * within a cannon-shot radius turned out to see the steam-plough in operation. He it was, later on, who introduced the first reaper and binder into the place —another object of wonder and admiration amongst the farmers of the district, who have since that day proved so enterprising themselves in the same direction. The late Mr Redwood was a brother of Archbishop Redwood, also of Thomas and Charles, the former of Blenheim and the latter of Queensland. Deceased had three sisters—Mrs Bolton, Mrs Cyrus Goulter and Mrs J. Ward, all of Marlborough. The sons of deceased are Messrs Joseph Henry and Fred. Redwood, and the only daughter Mrs Eccles. The funeral took place to-day, and was largely attended. Archbishop Redwood spoke both in the church and at the graveside, v; .