OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17820, 1 July 1932, Page 5

OBITUARY

" .... • . Mr. -James Grant, Mayor of Woodvfftel.drivu% 1912 aha 1913, died at Palmerston North this week at the age of RL years. He was formerly engaged in terming at . Woodville, and was a reoogntaed authority on ' Shorthorn stock.

Qne of thp most outstanding perspnfdHjcs in stock-buying circles in Hawke’s Bay for the past 25 years wa s lost to tho province on Tuesday, when Mr. H. T. James passed away in DunWrirke. ’He was one of the senior fatgbcek buyers of the Clear Meat ComThe death of Mrs. Griffiths, which occurred it Halclutbu North last Saturday, lias removed from the community the la§t of thp passengers who came out tb’New Zealand in the John Wick 1 iffe, whicfi arrived at Port (Chalmers on March 2i, 1843. Her parents-Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mosley—brought with them a family of three girls, of whom Elizabeth (subset lueatly Mrs. Griffiths) was tho. second eldest. She was three years old rytieu she arrjvpd in this country. Born in Auckland 87 years ago, Mr. James Maxwell, caretaker of the Waipoua Forest, died at Mot ukaraka. North Auckland, on Sundav. Mr. Maxwell was the son of a pioneer family, hifi parents having come to New Zealand bv the ship Aurora, which reached' Wellington in 1840, with the Xc-w' Zealand Company's first passengers. Mia childhood was spent at LuOais Gjf#ek, where his -father was transport foreman for a timber business, which he afterwards topk over. A" wide circle of flieild§ will mourn tho passing of Mr. John McKeown, of Hastings, who died at an earl.V hour on Monday. Mr. McKe° wn was born at Armagh, Ireland, nearly 88 years ago. m cosio to New Zealand ip the sailing ffip'fkrayhnmul in J 865 with his parents, wtp sefcfled in Canterbury. After some niitw yt&M» in Canterbury Mr. McKeown to the Manawatu, where h(s lived f2B vears. and was widely respected. was ‘in 1903 that he went to Hastings in take op fruit-growing. During the past week death has xe- * number of old residents of 'Waagaaui. The death of Mrs. Helen Ami 'Garrett breaks an important link with tha early days of the city,' os Mrs. (Garrett and * her brother, Mr. Ewen Ounpbeii, were 'the' oldest "surviving Wanganui-born' people. Mrs. Garrett W*i horn in Wanganui in 1848 apef except fpr & short period spent at Pukefephe, -resided in or near Wanganui all life’ Another pioneer woman to sp away during tfie past week was afrs. Jane Taylor, well known and retjy many Wanganui residents. son of one of liYangahui’s earliest saltier!, Mr,’ William Gray, of’ Lctng■§re? died last week. His father was one o/ the first men to go to the little settlement in the days whfh travel op Wesi Coast’ was attended ■with real danger and adventure.