OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18460, 25 July 1923, Page 10

OBITUARY.

—,—♦ __ -.- i >t DEATH OF OLD GQLf»*T. ::,'■' MRS. E. JSIB.K.' .-..-_..-.. . .;.k- i Another old residents the Dominion, 4 ■ Mrs. E. Kirk/ di«d i at the residence of tea m daughter, Mrs. : O. Gunman,: Queisu 1 Street, NorthcoteVyesfcerday 'morning, in her 84tti .'.'£ year. f With her husband, the Ute Mr. ['.'.l -Alexander Kirk, who was a ; lCrimeaßi||i veteran and piper to a Highland t»Jgimenv|: ; | -and three children, Mrs. Kirk landed is Dunedin from the ship Helensleei in th« sixties.. After '$ some experience ton w tli«S goldfields of Otago, , the family ' reniov*d to i "■ the; ' West Coast of the I 'South;;; Island, J eventually settling at Hokifika. litr. Kirk died about eight years ago, and acme-four 11 years later his widow came to Auckland ' to reside, with : her daughter. -' • Mi's. Kirk is by three daughters-Mrs/ Robertson, of Zeehan, / Tasmania,,v?MrsJ§P Gunman, and • Mrs. '* George Falla, Devonport; and five sonar-Alexander, trade manager of, the; Salvation;. Army, ' 5 Welling.'•--•-ton; James, telegraph engineer's depart--ment, Wellington j William,-of ?£s£# Dunedin; and Charles, secrataty to the Canterbury Education Board. There '-.' are 39 prandohiMrea and eight great* 1 grandchildren. . . * 6 J a MRS. AMY WEBSTER* ' fll An old resident of Auckland> Mrs. Amy.l Webster, passed away :at her , residence. .' Kitchener-Road, ? Takapmia,v on Monday! » 1 Mrs. - Webster, who was born in Boston, m Lancashire, m iMI, arrived at Auckland mm 1874, after a stormy and.eventful voyage of .' over four months, in' the" ship 'James 1 Wishart. She was accompanied by her ; husband and" three ; chUdren. their ■ eldest* child dying and being buried.at sea. Mrs. Webster, who had resided at Takapuna 1 " for the last 20. years, had endeared her- ' § self to ail who knew her by her cheery " . manner and h kindly thought for others., She is survived by her husband, Mr. C. ' : A. Webster;' late of-; the New Zealand' Railways, five sons, ; arid two daiiffhters, M There are a : number of- grandcWlAraii™ The funeral will take place at O'Neill'a " Point .Cemetery this afternoon. ' -<* ■"'"'"'' - : "' "'' ———' '" , '"'' : ''