OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20041, 3 September 1928, Page 12

OBITUARY.

MB. E. A. EYRE. Mr. Egmont Annesloy Eyre, who resided at 10, Wangnnui Avenue, Ponsonby, and who was associated with North Shoro affairs in a business and public capacity for a number of years, died on Friday, aged 51. A son of the lato Mr. Robert Dudley Eyre, who surveyed Thames when the golcKield was opened, and Mrs, Eyre, now a resident of California, Mr. Eyro spent his boyhood first in Wanganui and then in California, returning from the United States when ho was 19 years of ago. Ho was town clerk of Takapuna from 1912 to 1915, when failing eyesight compelled him to seek an open-air occupation. He took up farming and interested himself in local politics for a time as a member of the Northcote Borough Council. . In recent years ho was private secretary to the Hon. E. W. Alison. Ho is survived by hi 3 wife and five daughters. The funeral took place at Hillsborough Cemetery on Saturday, the Rev. H. flislop officiating. MR. ROBERT SCOTT. [by telegraph.-—own correspondent.] MORRINSVILLE. Sunday. The death has occurred at the Waikalo Hospital of Mr. Robert Scott, of Ngarua, Waitoa, at the ago of 67 years. Mr. Scott was born at Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, and came to Now Zealand 15 years ago. He settled in the Ngarua district, aijd had farmed there since. He is survived by a widow, four sons and five daughters.