IN MEMORIAM.
2be sosne was in fair Maoriland, and at a shearing shed Were two Australian shearers, reclining on a W. They talked about Australia, in good old days gone by, When they travelled over New South Wales, from ifay to Mungundi. They talked of big gun shearers — Mitchell, .Reid, and Ja-eky Dow, Jack Williams, Dick the Chinaman, and famous big Jack Howe. They chatted on. together, till one of them did ■ say, "I saw it in The Worker that Reid has passed away." "What! good old Jack from Penshurst — tbs great Kallara gun, Who fought, for cur old union, and would a blackleg shun ? The man that in the Tooma shed sent Mitchell to th© hut? No sh«arer^ver ,beat him where they had an honest out He led the good old Tarwong crowd, amongst the Laohlan's best — M'G-innis. Scott, and Williams, Mosey Wright and all the rest For none of them .could pas® him wheai he mad© up his mind, And tha bass put up the tallies, to leave them all behind. "We will erect a monument in dear old Penshurst town In honour of this unionist, a shearer of renown. He would always help a comrade when trouble came his way, And to erect this monument his shearing mates will pay. Let us hope that he is happy in that bright ~ land above; They say that in that glorious place we'll again meet those we love. And if there are sheep in heaven, and he secures a stand, When old. St. Peter rings the bell, then Jack will lead the> band." —The Wanderer. August, 1905r-
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Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 63
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