GORE DISTRICT NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20354, 10 March 1928, Page 7

GORE DISTRICT NEWS.

(Fp.om Our Own Correspondent.) GORE, March 0. TERRITORIALS’ CAMP. Some 13 members of the Ist Battalion, Southland Regiment, under S.S. Major J. Fitzgerald, have pone to Invercargill to undergo a course of training under canvas. There will altogether be 200 men in the camp—the remnants of the battalion who missed the camp recently held at Gore. On Saturday morning several of the Gore and Mataura territorials will leave under Captain Poppehvell for Trcntham

to participate in the army championships lor shooting. OB ITU All Y. Tlie late Air John Christie, who passed away at hits residence, Burns street, ilataura, on Tuesday, was an old and muchrespected resident of the Tuturau district, lie was born in Glasgow in September, 1859, At the age of tour years _\Jr Christie left in 1808 with bin parents in the City of Dunedin for New Zealand, landing at Port Chalmers the same year. When the deceased was 17 years of age his father died, leaving him the oldest of a family of six. Mr Christie began work in Canterbury, following various fanning pursuits, and later he returned to Portohello, where he was married. Later on lie took ovei a farm on the Otago Peninsula which he worked for some years, eventually removing to luehclntha, where he had acquired a farm. Borne 20 years ago he took up a section on the Mairaruia Estate, Tuturau, which ho farmed until some five years ago, when he retired to live in Mataura, the two sous, Messrs Alexander and James Christie, taking over the farm. The deceased was predeceased by his wife in July of last year. The late Air Christie was of a retiring disposition, and took little interest in public affairs apart from the Tuturau Dairy Factory, of which he was a director for several years. He was an ardent church worker, taking a keen interest in the affairs of the Mataura Presbyterian Church. He is survived by a family of three daughters and two sons.