OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 10

OBITUARY.

DEATH OF OLD COLONISTS.

MB. H. ' D. DICKESON".

Another link with the history of the Far North was severed by the death of % Mr. - Henry : Dean Dicbeson, . which occurred- at his residence, View Road, : Mount Eden. Mr. Dickeson, who was born . at Chesterfield, England, over 67 - years ago, arrived in Auckland some 63 years ago with his father, Mr. G. ]?. Dickeson, after a brewer at Ngaruawahia. As a youth he was employed, on, the newspaper Southern / Cross. Subsequently he was engaged as a scout dux- ;: ing the chase after Te Kooti, which followed the Poverty Bay massacre. Be was then engaged in a store at Waitangii, and • later opened a store for the late Sir John Logan Campbell at Mangawhare, following this by the establishment, alio . for Sir John, of 13 other stores at various places. About 45 years ago he »*» • turned' to the Bay of Islands, where he . ; became one. of the v largest gam buyers, fpj with : Kaikohe as a base. jJ Afterwards he conducted the Kaikohe Hotel. It was during his tennri}, in 1903, ;- that Maero Kuao and his tribe offered ¥ A resistance against the investigation of tba • ' " rohe potae " lands, and a large body : or armed police, under Inspector (afterwards Commissioner) John Coll en,' were - sent up from Auckland' to restore peace.. *§ The hostile , natives wer® arrested and the billiard room of Mr. Dickeaon's hotel was used as a lock-up for the custody of the prisoners until their trial. Subsequently; Mr. Dickeson took tip what was afterwards known as the Remuer-a j estatenow a soldiers' settlement —and was. very sucoessful as a breeder of stua ■ sheep ' and cattle. :In his early life Mr. Dicbeson , was a keen cricketer and: as a youth repre- v . sented New Zealand against a visiting j; team of Englishmen. He was also * Sfi sprinter of note, and at one time hela\ the New Zealand record, 10*, : for IQOyda. In addition, he was a keen sportsman j being a first-class shot. - To his funeral, which took place on i _r: Tuesday, the Auckland Cricket Association, of which he was a vice-president, ; ; sent a wreath, and also furnished the . pail-bearers. Mr. Dickeson is survived by his wife and .two daughters, one of whom is the wlfo of: Mr. C. W. Rickarii - v -: a well-known warehouse manager in Wellington. ■ . \

MRS. W. G. McLARNON. There passed away at Win recently a' very old identity in the person o'l Mr#; W.'G. McLarnon, aged 87. Sh? arrived in Auckland in 1863, and had lived since then in the Wiri district. She was the widow of the ' late Wm. G. McLarnon, who predeceased her some 10 years. Mrs. McLarnon, who was widely known for her kindly disposition, is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J. W. Salmon, of Wellington, and Mrs. W. J. Castles, of Win.