OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18353, 22 March 1934, Page 5

OBITUARY

LATE MR. C. N. MOORE Deep regret at the. death on Monday night of Mr. Clarence .Nnncoliis Moore, elder son of .Mr. and .Mrs. H. Moore, of Manga pa pa, was displayed at the funeral of the deceased yesterday afternoon. The service took place at the Makaraka Anglican Chunk, and was conducted by the Rev. B. Hodgson, and after the service a long cortege of fully 5'J cars followed the hearse to the Tarnherti •cemetery, where the last rites were performed by Mr. Hodgson. The pallbearers were Messrs. A. Mitchell. J. A. .Pearce, J. Davies, F. Clare, F. C. Boiiselield, C. E. Davies, and F. J. Davies. .Many beautiful wreaths were laid upon the grave. BUSH DISTRICT PIONEER (Per Press Association.) EKETAHUXA, this day. Tho death occurred late yesterday afternoon of Mrs Anders Olsen, aged 'B6 years, who arrived by the Forfarshire at Wellington in IS7-1 with her uncle. Shortly after she married Mr. A. Jacobson, one of a party of Scandinavians to settle in the Bush District. She was the first- white woman •to arrive in the. Bush District and (lie mother of the first while child born there. Mr. Jacobsen died about two years after coming here, leaving a family of'two, the late Mrs Hardingham and Mr. A. Jacobson, of Ekotaliuila.

Deceased commenced the first business opened in Ekctahuna, a boardinghouse, and at one time owned a block in the centre of tlie town. Later she married another original settlor, Mr. A. Olsen, who predeceased her in 1!)I7. The surviving family comprise one daughter and four sons of the second marriage. There are J 3 grandchildren, two great-grand-children, and also a step-daughter and step-son. There are four surviving sisters, one in Norway, one in America, Mrs Bigvcrson, of Auckland', and Mrs Christensen, of Palmerston North. All are over SO.

FORMER CRICKET COACH

The death is reported from. England of Mr. J. C. Lawton, aged 72, a wellknown Warwickshire cricketer, who early left his mark on New Zealand cricket. He went to Otago as a coach in ISO, and built up a team that, made cricketing history and is still regarded ns having been a great side. Mr, Lawton’s engagement was for four years, but lie left his influence in coaching, as he brought out the latent possibilities of such great cricketers as Alex Downes, Arthur 11. Fisher, and Jack Hope. In the famous Otago-C-anterbury match of 1891, when Canterbury was beaten for the first time since 1867 on their home.ground, Lawton and Downes bowled with deadly effect, Lawton taking four wickets for 44 and six for 30. In the following season he again took seven for 28 and seven for 30 against Canter bur) .

Mrs. Mary Amelia O’Neill, 45, has passed away at Hastings after a long illness. She was the wife of Senior-Ser-geant O’Neill, of the Hastings police force. .