OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18193, 14 September 1933, Page 11

OBITUARY

MR. PATRICK LEE The death occurred to-dav of Mr atrick Lee after a short illness, giving shock to his family and many friends, tfhe late Mr Lee was born in County ligo, Ireland, 60 years ago. He maried Miss Elizabeth Thompson in Engmd, and 24 years ago they came to [ijforne, where he entered the employ f Mr D. ft. Thompson, Mrs Lee’s rot her, as a landscape gardener and atrseryniun. Mr Lee continued in lijj employment up to the time of his rfijifatal illness. His was a quiet aft’kindly disposition which made him ell liked among all those with whom e came in contact. The widow and five sons are left to tdUrn their loss, the family eomprisig Messrs. David, Harry, Norman, 'rCderiek and Stanley Lee. Requiem lass will be held at St. Mary’s Church t 9 a.m. to-morrow, and the funeral ill leave the church at 2 p.nt. for the aruheru Cemetery. The death has occurred at his resi»nce, Remuera, A'ucKlaud, of Mr. [afey Hamilton Smith, aged 60 years, he youngest son of the late Mr. arid' [jb. WilHam Smith, he was born in abier, and when a young man enigCd in farming in the Gisborne disict and later at Glen Murray. Mr. mith was a keeen chess player and was past president and patron of the uckland Chess Club. He is survived y his wife.

Another link with the early history : the Wairarapa has been severed ttJtigh the death in Masterton of Mrs. 4ry Ann Cave, at the age of 86 years, oil'll in Wellington in 1848, the late lis. Cave was taken to the Wairarapa l her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. ichard Irons, as a child. She was airied at the age of 22 years to Mr. ~ W. Cave, who predeceased her 13 tars ago. She. was a granddaughter Mr. Joseph Masters, after whom Masrton was named, and her mother was i«h first storekeeper and postmistress in asterton. An old resident and a pioneer eonactor of the Thames Valley district, l|; Patrick Herbert, died at the Thames flpiah after a short illness, at the age Mr. Herbert was horn in onnty Clare, Ireland, and came to New lahnid in 1875, landing at Auckland, is first job on road formation work was i Napier, where he remained for a amber of years. Mr. Herbert then :£|t to the Waikato, and later to upper wines Valley. One of Marlborougli’s oldest and iliest surviving residents, Mrs. EJiza fiith, relict of the late Mr. Frederick nith, of Tuamarina, passed away at Itoheim. on Saturday. Mrs. Smith, ho was 91 years of age, was horn at iravviey, Worcestershire, England. She hie out to New Zealand with her dints in 1856 on the last voyage of sailing ship named the Hinchnan. W family landed at Nelson, and for time Mr. Powiek, her father, worked i: Sir Edward Stafford’s estate. Mr. id Mrs. Smith were amongst the iladers of the Tuamarina settlement.