OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 5

OBITUARY

A Christchurch exchange 'records the death of Mr William Henry Wicks, aged SO, who was for 18 years head* ihaster of the Burnham Industrial School.

Mr Edmund Spencer, who passed away at Shannon recently in his seventy-ninth year, had boon a resident, of that district for half a century.

A highly respected Hawke’s Bay resident, Mr Ernest Oswald Roach, died at Wellington on Sunday, aged 62. Ho had been a resident of Hastings and Porangahau for many years.

enterprising pioneer farmer, Mr George, Wood, died at Birkdale, Auckland, on Saturday. He arrived at Dunedin in 1874 from Western Australia and took up a virgin holding of 200 acres at Chatton, 1 Southland. This area he subsequently increased to 1800 acres. He later entered into business at Gore and for the last 10 years was farming at Birkdale.

The death of Mr. Neil Brown, of Pukengahu, removes a member of a family who was closely associated with the early history of Ngaere, reports a Stratford correspondent. He was born at Pictou in 1877 and went to Ngaere with his parents as a child. He was clerk in the Wellington office of the Unioiq Steam Ship Company for some time as a youth and then practically ran away to sea, and travelled round the world several times, securing his mate’s certificate. Ho was also for a time assistant-purser on the s.s. Wakatipu. Leaving the sea, lie fanned at Buckland and finally returned some years ago to Pukengahu, nine miles from Stratford.

A sturdy pioneer who helped to carve Wellington .from the wilderness has passed away in the .person of Mrs T. Devine. Deceased was born at Lowry Bay in 1865, when the bay was owned by her great uncle, Mr Jackson. She was married to Mr T. Devine, who survives her. They started out in their life’s work 60 years ago on a bush section in Whiteman's Valley, with only an nfere or two cleared on which their ibaeli stood. At the time there were no roads except the bush tracks from Sil.verstrenm, from v'hero provisions jiad tk> be carried into their section, often by the lady herself. At this time - medical service was far distant, arid this pioneer proved herself a good neighbor in sickness and in health. For 40 years sho and her husband worked their section until it was fully cleared and grassed, ,nnd proved a good shedp farm. When declining years crept on they moved to Qtaki, to be near .some of their family.