OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 153, 31 May 1937, Page 6

OBITUARY.

Mil CHARLES HALL. The death occurred at Wellington on Saturday of Air Charles Hall, a wellinown resident of Danuevirke, in his ninety-filth year. Air Hall, who was Ai.l\ lor Avaipawa during the time of the Seddon and Waid (jrovernments, was horn at Alalton, lorkshire, being the seventh son of the late Air George Hall, stationer, of that town. Apprenticed to the joinery trade, he axterward joined the Post Office, and later the railway clearing-house in London. Mr Hall arrived at Napier in the Countess of ivintore in J. 875. He followed the building trade in and round Napier, and in 1880 took up a bush section near Woodville. A busii fire destroyed his home and he removed with his family to Woodville, again entering the budding trade. Being actively interested in land settlement, lie assisted in the settlement of the Hall and Alalton blocks near Woodville. He was also an original selector in the Mangahao block, near Pahiatua.

Among the public positions held by Mr Hall during a long and active life were the following: Mayor of Woodville, chairman of the Waipawa County Council, District Coroner, member of the Waipawa Licensing Committee and the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, and the Hawke’s Bay Education Board.

In 1893 Mr Hall entered Parliament as member for Waipawa, and a strong supporter of the Seddon Ministry, but at the next election lost his seat to the late Sir George Hunter. At the election in 1899 he was again successful, and retained his seat until 1911, when he retired from politics. Accompanied by Mrs Hall, be spent three years in England, returning to Dannevirke in 1915. Mr Hall was twice married. His first wife, Eliza, died in England, leaving an infant daughter, who came to New Zealand as a girl. His second wife, who died in 1918, was Miss Marian Dinsdale Malton, who came to New Zealand in October, 1878 in the City of Auckland, which went ashore on Otaki Beach, and the mast of which was a prominent landmark at the mouth of the Otaki River till it was washed' away last year. The marriage took place at Napier later in the same vear._ Mr Hall is survived by his three children, Mrs J. A. H. Nash (Auckland), Mrs A. Wright (Dannevirke), and Mr G. F. Hall (Hataitai, Wellington).