GOING BACK TO IRELAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 10

GOING BACK TO IRELAND

FORMER TOLAGA SETTLER Mr. Samuel Sebastopol Quinn, who has been a resident of Dannevirke for nearly 40 years, and who arrived in the Dominion in November, 1876, has left for Auckland to return to County Tipperary, Ireland, the land of his birth. Mr. Quinn is sailing from Auckland by the Rangitata to-day. His trip being necessitated by the death of bis brother. Both he and bis wife, Lady Stanhope, died without issue, and Mr. S. S. Quinn, being next of kin, is a substantial beneficiary from bis brother’s estate.

Mr. Quinn, who is in bis sevehtyeiglith year, and has no relatives in the Dominion, landed at Blind Bay, Nelson, having made the voyage from Ireland in an East Indian “clipper.” He became the first station master at Foxton. Later, after being transferred to Wanganui, be left the railway service to accept appointment us resident agent there of the Government, Life Insurance Department, and owing to his success in writing new business was transferred to Hawke’s Bay to counteract the operations of two opposition offices. On one occasion he was the only canvasser of the Government Life Office in New Zealand to qualify for a bonus offered to agents writing new business for six months up to a certain minimum, his figures for the period being £36.250. After a visit to Australia, Mr. Quinn bad sole charge of the district between Gisborne and Taranaki for the Government Life Office, and there again was most successful. Prompted by the call of the land, be realised on farm and household properties he possessed at Dannevirke, Umutaoroa. and Waipnkurrin, lo go with 1 relatives into a 400 Q acre farm venture at the back of Tolaga Bay, but tin's proved a failure. Mr. Quinn then went to Dannevirke and acted for many years as representative of the National Mutual Office.