OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22700, 12 April 1937, Page 12

OBITUARY

THE REV. J. A. KEMPTHORNE FORMER AUCKLAND CURATE [by telegraph—owx correspondent] DUNEDIN". Saturday The death has occurred after a fortnight's illness of the Rev. John Arnold j Kempthorne, vicar of St. John's Angli-j can Church, Milton. Mr. Kempthorne j was born at Reefton in 1879. He was j the eldest son of Archdeacon and Mrs. j Kempthorne, his father at that time being the vicar of St. Stephen's Church, Reefton, and was a brother of Bishop Kempthorne, of Polynesia. He was educated at Nelson College, and afterwards at St. John's College, Auckland. His first appointment was as curate at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Remuera, Auckland. From 1907 to 1910 he was curate at Heckmondwike, lorkshire. On returning to New Zealand in 1910 lie married !Miss E. A. Houchen, at Takapuna. Other appointments held bv Mr. Kempthorne included those _ of assistant-curate at New Plymouth, vicar at Inglewood. Taumarunui, Morrinsville and Te Kuiti, and assistant-curate at Feilding. In 1931 he was appointed vicar of St*. John's, Milton. MRS. ALICIA TTDY The death has occurred of Mrs. Alma lid v. of Eden Grove. Mount Eden, at the age of 86. For 57 years she lived in the same home at Mount Eden. Born in 1851 at Abbington, Northants, England, she arrived in New Zealand in 1875 in the sailing ship Carnatic after an adventurous voyage of four months. The ship was three weeks in the English Channel, there were dis'sensions among the crew, and because of the length of the voyage food ran short. She joined her brother at Waiuku, and a few years later she married Mr. R. Udy, who was then farming 200 acres at Mount Eden. There were then only two houses between her house and the top of Symonds Street, the district being a farming one. Mr. tidy died in 1905. Mrs. Udy is survived by a daughter, Mrs. A. S. Oxley, of Balmoral Road. Another daughter, the late Mrs. W. A. Brown, as Miss Daisy TJdy, was for some years the leading woman tennis player in Auckland and was one of the best players in the Dominion. There is one grandson. MR. THOMAS MOORCRAFT [FROM OUR OWX CORRESPOXDEX'TT WHANGAREI, Saturday The death occurred at his residence, Bank Street, "Whangarei, this moraine of Mr. Thomas Moorcraft, aged 84 years. The deceased was one of the first arrivals at the gold rush at Thames, and for 17 years he was underground foreman at the Waitai mine. In 1903 he-established a bakery'business in Kingsland, Auckland. After the war he removed to Whangarei, where he was engaged in business until his retirement nine years ago. He is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.