OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18484, 24 August 1934, Page 14

OBITUARY

MR. H. A. BRUCE (Per Prosb Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The death has occurred of Mr. H. A. Bruce, aged 76 years, formerly a prominent business 'man and well-known angler and bowler, being a life member of the Opawa Bowling Club. He was an ex-director of the Christchurch Building Society. The death has occurred in Christchurch of Mr. J. M. B. Crawford, who was on the staff of the School for the Deaf at Sumner for 39 years, and for eight years its director. A former district engineer of the Public Works Department in Auckland, Mr. Frederick Bigg-Wither, Remuera, has died at the age of 83. For many years he controlled .public works throughout the South Island. He later had charge of the construction of the North Auckland railway.

'Mr James .Drummond, an old identity of the Nelson and Wellington districts, died at Nelson recently, aged 85 years. The family were pioneers of sawmilling in tho district. One of the hardy pioneers who hewed homos for themselves out of the bush of New Zealand in the early colonisation days, Mrs Agnes Slater has died at Wellington in her hundredth year. Tho late Mrs Slater typified tho selfdependent early settler. Even in her adyanced old age she always insisted on sharing in tho domestic duties of her h-ome; arid took a keen interest in her garden. The late Mrs Slater was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, on January 1, 1835, and was married on August 20, 1858, to Mr Joseph Slater. Five years later they set out with their three young children in the sailing ship Ci'ty of Dunedin on her maiden voyage to New Zealand, arriving at Port Chalmers. Mr Slater obtained a position in the Railway Department,, and in 1891 he was transferred to Wellington, where he died seven years later.