Obituary

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 80, 3 April 1941, Page 4

Obituary

AIR. H. E. GUY With the death of Mr. 11. E. Guy, of Palmerston North, on Alarch 24, another link with the early history of tho Apiti district has been severed. The eldest, son cf the late Air. and Airs. F. S. Guy, he was born at Timaru in 1880, and when still quite young came with his parents to Kimbolton, where he commenced his schooling. A year or two later the family shifted to Apiti, ■where the remainder of his school years were spent. At about nine years of age he commenced working after school hours at his father’s sawmill, and later used to cart timber around the Apiti district with a waggon and a team of horses, going as far back as Umutoi, Pokangina, and the Harbour Board Block. Alanv of the older houses still standing to-day, which marked the growth of these districts, were built with timber carted by Air. Guy in his younger days. He lived in Apiti until some time after his marriage to Miss Ellen Gill in 1907, and then went to Ohakunc, where he followed the same occupation as in Apiti; but conditions there were some of the worst that are associated with early pioneering days, for coupled with bitterly cold weather in the winter time the mud was frequently up to the horses’ girths. From Ohakune he and Airs. Guy, with their little daughter, Alyrtle, shifted to Te Kuiti, where shortly afterwards Air. Guy joined the Railway Department, serving for several years there, and afterwards in turn at Te Awamutu, Hunterville, and Frankton Junction. In 1931 he left the department, and took up farming at Stanway, where he lived until Airs. Guy’s death in 1938, when he suffered a breakdown in health, from which ho never recovered sufficiently to return to his work on the farm. Recently, however, he took over a 'small business in College Street, Palmerston North, which, with the assistance of Airs. F. Robinson, he conducted till the time of his death. While at Te Awamutu he lost a little daughter in tho 1918 epidemic at the age of three and a-half years, and a second little daughter died while they were at Huntorville. Throughout his life Air. Guy took a keen interest in sport, and for many years took an active part in football. He leaves one daughter, Miss Alyrtle Guy, and four brothers and three sisters to mourn their loss.