OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21642, 12 May 1932, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR HENRY HURNDELL

The death of Mr H. Hurndell, of Waikouaiti, removes a very old and wellknown citizen of the district. Born in Ceddington, England, in the year 1848, he left England in 1854 in the ship Subriner for Australia, where he resided until 1801. In that year he came to New Zealand in a ship named the Seamen’s Bride, arriving at Port Chalmers. He lived in Dunedin for seven years, being employed as a young lad in Johnstone’s ironmongery store, on the site where M'Gavin’s Brewery now stands. His parents at this time lived in tents, on the banks of the Leith where the Botanic Gardens are now situated. He then removed with his parents to Palmerston, where they started a brick kiln. As there was no demand for bricks at this time he loft his father’s employ in order to try his fortune on the Dunstan gold fields. In 1873 he married the daughter of George Goddard. From 1878 to 1880 he was employed on the formation of the railway from Dunedin to Palmerston, and in the latter year was appointed to the permanent staff as a platelayer, from which position he retired on superannuation in September, 1908. During the last 45 years the deceased was a member of the Methodist Church. He took a great interest in his garden, which is a landmark in Beach street at the present time. The house on the property was in the early days known as Kilmarnach Store. He leaves a family of 10—five boys and five girls—to mourn their lose,