DEATH WHILE ANGLING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21742, 6 March 1934, Page 8

DEATH WHILE ANGLING

PLAYING A SWORDI-ISH RESIDENT OF MATMfATA [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] TAURANGA, Monday After playing a. swordfish from the launch Dauntless, off Mayor Island, for about ten minutes yesterday morning, Mr. William Williamson Livingstone, of Matamata, collapsed in the launch and died. Mr. Livingstone, who was 61 years of age, was a keen sportsman, and a member of a well-known Vi aikato family. He was fishing with a friend, Mr. C. B. Daveney, of Morriiisville, and while playing the swordfish complained of feeling unwell and asked Mr. Daveney to take the rod. As tho rod was being handed over Mr. Livingstone collapsed and died immediately.

Tlio launch was taken to Mayor Island, where the services of Dr. Wallis, of Rotorua, were available. Life, however, was pronounced extract, and the Dauntless returned to Tauranga, from where the body was conveyed to Matamata.

Mr. Livingstone was well known in New Zealand as a deer stalker and angler, and was connected with many sporting organisations in the Waikato. In 1926, with his brother, Mr. D. B. Livingstone, he went on a big-game shooting expedition to South AErica.

Born at Akaroa, he was tie eldest son of tlie late Mr. and Mrs. W. \V. Livingstone, of Tuhikaramea, near Ohaupo. He took up a farm near Matamata 25 years ago and had farmed there ever since. He was a well-known breeder of purebred English Leicester gheep and Shorthorn cattle, and. acted as a judge at the last Clevodon show. He was a director of the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company, Limited, Hamilton. Mr. Livingstone was a Freemason and held office in several athletic organisations. He was president of the Matamata Cricket Club, having been a playing member for 25 years, president, of the Piako Cricket Association, and president of the Matamata Rifle Club. In his youth he was a representative cricketer and Rugby football player and was a good performer on the sports track. He was chairman of the Bedford Park trustees and, for the past 12 years, president of the Matamata Acclimatisation Society. Mr. Livingstone is survived by his wife, four brothers, Messrs. Frank, of Onehunga, Fred, of Walton, Richard, of Frankton, and D. B. Livingstone, of Tuhikaramea, and one sister, Mrs. Gox-e, of Clevedon.