OBITUARY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10334, 4 September 1926, Page 5

OBITUARY.

NOTED AGRICULTURALIST MR J. C. N. GRIGG, OF LONG BEACH. Electric Telegraph—Press Association ASHBURTON, Last Night. Mr J. C. N. Grigg, of Longbeach, died this evening, aged 65. As the owner of the famous estate, once described as the world’s model farm, he was known throughout New Zealand and abroad. Succeeding his father, John Grigg, in 1901, he worthily upheld the traditions of the estate, which, though reduced in area of late years’, has not diminished in fame. Mr Grigg was born at Auckland in 1861, and educated at Christ’s College, Christchurch, and Cambridge University. On returning to New Zealand in 1883, he became overseer of Longbeach, acting in that capacity until the death of his father. His importations of pedigree cattle), horses, sheep and pigs, has had beneficial effects on Dominion stock. The first line of Holsteins brought to New Zealand were impel ted from Holland by him.

Nlr Grigg also owned some good trotters and gallopers, Ins father having owned Spot, son of Gentle Annie, the foundation ot trotting stock in the Dominion, He took a keen interest in the Ashburton A. and P. Association, being president in 1888-89. It is noteworthy that the father was the first president, and his son J. H. Grigg occupied that position in this Association’s jubilee year. He was at one time a member of the County Council, a member of the Power Board, and since its inception, a member of the Meat Producers’ Board, and many local and public bodies-. In his youth he was noted as an athletic Rugby player, and a keen cricketer. He is survived by his wife, who was a daughter of the late Captain Hutton, Curator of the Canterbury Museum, and also three sons, J. H. and A. N. Grigg, Hororata, and tv o daughters, Mesdames McDonald. Christchurch, and Shaw, England. EDWARD HENRY PENNY. BLENHEIM, Last Night. Th© death occurred this afternoon under painfully sudden circumstances of Mr Edward Henry Penny, one of Blenheim's best known and most highly esteemed public men. Mr Penny had been in indifferent health for two or three wee is, and was apparently in fairly goo 1 health this morning, but later in cbo afternoon he was found dead in bed, having apparently passed n wav quietly in his sleep. Mr Penny settled in Blenheim in 1885, and purchased a stationery and book business. lie became Mayor in 1905, and for a long period was a member of- the Wairan Hospital Board. He was prominently associated with the Methodist Church, of which he was a lay preacher. In 1920 Mr Penny was vice-president of the New Zealand Methodist Conference. He was a member of the Blenheim School Committee for nearly 30 years, and chairman since 1901 ; a member of the Wellington Education Board, and chairman of tlie Board of Governors of Marlborough College. In 1919 Mr Penny contested, unsuccessfully, the Wailau seat in the Reform interests.