CLERGYMAN'S DEATH
POUND SITTING IN CHAIR (Per Press Association.) FEJLDING, last night. The Rev. I'. W. Jones, a retired Methodist minister, was found dead in his chair at his residence at Feilding today by a visiting minister. Mr. Jones had been living alone since his wife died a couple, of weeks ago. Deceased, who was about 80 years of age, was a pioneer minister here. He took the services when the original immigrants arrived in 1874, being then stationed at Fox ton. Me was always a sturdy battler for prohibition, and had been president of the local Prohibition League for many years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17124, 3 December 1929, Page 9
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