OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18707, 13 May 1924, Page 10

OBITUARY

MR. JAMES HUNTER. ■: i - _____ C , "I • Mr. James Hunter, late session clerk to St. James' Church, Papatoetoe, who died last week, has been resident in the Auckland district for 17 years. Before he came to New . Zealand' he was a. mission . . worker in ■ the . slums of 4 Glasgow. The service at the . funeral' on Sunday "was con? ■ ducted by the/Revs. T. H. •: Rosevear and D. D. Scott and ,Mr.. W. Sutherland. - A memorial service was afterwards held in the Papatoetoe Sunday-school., "-V ' - "-'j:''- T:-.': ; . •. - •/. * < MR. JAMES ELLISON., . ■ ■ The, death occurred -on ; Saturday of ; Mr. James Ellison, of 13, Dexter Avenue. Mr. /Ellison, who was in his 61st year, was born in Dunedin and came to Auckland 40 years ago'. V: For the past 24 year* he had" been an -employeef of 'the , Education ; Board ? and was i well; known ;in Auckland and v country districts, his quiet unassuming manner 1 making ' many friends. Mr. Ellison leaves a widow, tjwo sons and two daughters.. RETURNED SOLDIER DEAD. [BI TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.} . TAXJBANGA, Monday'. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. George Charles William ; Danes; • I: Deceased, * wile was 27 years of ■ age, was the eldest son of Mr. George Davies, ?of Tauranga. He served in "the - Gallipoli campaign and later 'in /France. He was both wounded and € gassed, and ? after his return... to New' Zealand bad health developed. :* Be recently went .to ' Oropi on a motoring trip ■ and when returning was seized with hemorrhage of the lungs and * expired, in a•• few;: minutes. He ,is survived by a widow and two young , children.. " ' MR. DAVID J., MARTIN. ■■ V 7.. '- [BY SCfXEGE'.APH.~rOWN- COKB.ESPOOT3ENT.J ■ ' • THAMES, Monday. ; A -well-kciown -figure - among the, old' r miners, : Mr. David James Martin, passed away at Thames . Hospital <- yesterday, at the age 0f,J33 ; years, a The late M;\ Martin was a native £ of : Redruth, Cornwall, and arrived - at Thames in the year 1871. ;He • started i work .in ' the Point Russell mine, < and some : years ; later -went to Reef-, ton to take .up the position of underground boss >in the Keep-it-Dark mine, : a position he retained 'i for 20 years. He returned to Thames -in'-1800: *v' ; ij Until ; becoming ill, . three • weeks , ago, deceased was | quite $ active, : and, he \i& regained all his mental - faculties until - the ; end. t -v. „ /:•;