OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 10

OBITUARY

An Auckland exchange announces the death of Mr, John Bouskill, a wellkiiora monumental mason and" bowleg i Mr. Bouskill', who,was 79 yeami of.age,. : was bom in Westmoreland and came to New Zealand with his wife and two young children about SO years, ago in the Doric:, one of the first steamers to come direct to New Zealand. M>\ Charles Henry Harding, an old resident of Nurth Turangki, died : recently at New Plymouth., Mi, Harding, who . was 80 years.of age, was born at Stoke Newington, England, and came to New Zealand with his parents in the ship Eagle’s Speed, which left England on June 21, 1854, arriving at Auckland five months later,. Mr, Harding vyovkeij. on farms in the Auckland district as a lad, and at the age of 17 took part in the Te Kooti Maori War disturbances around the Waikato district for about two years. He.worked as a linesman cin early surveys in the same district. The death of Mrs Susan East, of the age of 94 years, removes a pioneer of the Nelson district. At the age of eight years, Mrs East arrived in Nelson, from England with her parents, the late Mr and Mrs Denis Erost.jp the ship Marriner. Mrs parents settlecf at Hillside, Wakapuaka, and she married Mr Joseph East, of England, in 1801 and settled in the Wood area, then known a- “The Bush,” and resided in the same house until recently. She was one of llva,bridesmaids at the marriage of Mrs Hcmi Matenga (Martin), Now Zealand’s “Grace Darling.”

"F Oufi of tin* oldest, and most, highly respected set!lers pf the North Otago .distract bas passed away iii the person of Mr Janies Firth Walter. Born ip the Orkney Islands 83 years ngp, Mr Walter,, with his cousin, the late Mr [John Corrigal) (Duntioon), decided to seek his fortune in New Zealand. Barely 20 years of age, lie set out in [the clipper Edward T’. Bouvery for the {far-off Dominion, and arrived at Port, Chalmers in 1870. lie went to North Otago, and spent .most of his life in the Duodston and Kakanui districts engaged in fanning pursuits. A former well-known Napier 'businessman, Mr John Cottrell, passed away suddenly in Oaimiru recently a,t jthe ho pie of hi. j sister-in-law, Mrs W. 11. Cottrell. IJorii in Chatham, England’ Mr Cottrell came to New Zealand in the ’seventies, in company with his parents, brothers and sisters, and settled in Dunedin. In 188.1, he married Miss A. Spence, of Oainani, and some years later went to Napier. There he established “The Novelty Depot,” which business was totally destroyed in tii6 earthquake anil was not reestablished. The deatli of Mr William Corldll, Stratford, removes an old and highly respected pioneer of 1 aiujiaki, reports the Taranaki Herald. Pior to coming to “Mona Park” over 53 years ago, Mr Corkill farmed at Tataraiinaka. He had farms on the Brecon and Brookes roads, Stratford, and retired from active work in 1916. Public lift’ had no attraction for him and Iris chief interest centred in the Church of England, of which lie was a zealous and

„ : -\ , ; doyot-eil member, Mr Corkill w/ts a 11 Manxman, having been born at Jtirby East, Isle of Map jn, 1856. He mari rietl M ,i.ss MaVgai’ct Cullun, liienibei 1 of ’ a family iii'tliq Taiqyi (Otago) district. I Later {he. North Djlam) settlement «t- ---'! tiacUjd the young couple and they ■ shifted to Taranaki. Mr Corkill is survived by his widow and family of four - ! sons and one daughter. Mr J. Corkill, ■ Wairoa, was a brother of deceased. , Mr. Thomas Shepherd, a pioneer of [ the cheese factory industry in the Wellington province, has tiled at, 1 Auckland. Mr. Shepherd, who was 84 '! years of age, arrived In New Zealand * j over 60 years ago front England. Ho was a .carpenter and was employed * for some times on the erection of Purr ’ liument Buildings in .Wellington, ‘ Turning his activities toward farming ’ ho acquired a large block of virgin land near the Rimutakas after ltis •t marriage to Miss Esther Fairey. In ! the late nineties when his farm was 5 developed he erected a cheese factory at Mungaroa, on ills own initiative. *, This was the lirst factory in the Wcl'jlington district. Mr. Shepherd relinj quished his interests* in the Welling- * ton district in 1908 and moved to t Auckland. * J One of .the original Albertlaud ? settlers was removed by the death > ’ recently of Mrs. Frances Elizabeth L Hibburt, of Grey Lynn, Auckland, s aged 78, Mrs. Hibburt arrived with - her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William 1 Oldfield, by the, ship Matilda Watten- *, bach, on September 8, .1862. The - Matilda. WaUenbueh brought the 1 first party of settlers, and :

from London to Auckland occupied 102 days. She married Mr. Alfred Hibburt, who had come to New Zealand from Binslield, Buckinghamshire, but. before many years her husband met with a. fatal accident and she was left a widow with four young children. Mr. George Ellis Whitmore, aged 7(i, a resident of the Otahuhu district for over 68 years, has passed away. Born in Leicester, England, Mr. Whitmore arrived in New Zealand by the sailing ship King of Italy with his parents when he was eight years of age. After a few. months’ residenpe in Auckland the family went to Otahului in 1865 when it was an undeveloped pensioner settlement, with two stores. In the past 68 years Mr. Whitmore has spent only one night away from Otahuhu, and that was on the occasion of a brother’s death.