OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 2

OBITUARY

Mr. James Kilgour Hannah, a retired banker, has died at Duneclin. Jflc was manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Eketahuna and Picton before his retirement.

Mr. James Allen, who. has died at ITawcra, aged 74 years, fornjgrly lived in Dunedini In 1885 lie played Rugby as an All Black, being ktiotvn as the "Taieri giant.’' ' ’ Mr. A. Hunter, who has died at Masterton at the age of 86, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and came to New Zealand when thred feats old. For the past 50 years he had been a resident of Masterton.

Mrs 'Stephen R. Ralph, who has pass'ed awflv at Masterton, wasbor.n in Hampshire, Englahd, in 1872, and came, to' New Zealand in the. ship Edward Fox, 59 years ago, accompanied by her parents, the late Mr arid’ Mrs J. C. Ingram.

A well-known figure on the. Auckland waterfront. Captain Charley Nelson, of Mount Eden, has died at the age of 781 years, fie came to New Zealand ovtjr 55 years ago, and was for a long tinie chief officer in Union Steam Ship Company vessels, and later master in Northern Steam Ship Company steamers. He retired some years ago. Mrs. Tini Kerei Taiaroa, widow of the Mon. Hori Keroi Taiaroa, M.L.C., has died at her home at Awhitu, Taumutu, Canterbury. She was a stamicli supporter of Maori rights, and had an intimate knowledge of their customs, geneuology, religion, and traditions, and exerted a great influence on all the Maori race throughout New Zealand. A Whangarei message records the death of Mrs Jean Dwyer, aged 66, of Otakairangi, widow of Mr Mathew Dwyer, who died recently. Mrs Dwyer was the eldest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Robert .Forsyth, of Apotu, who came to New Zealand in the ship Silver Engle about .1854 and settled in that district.

By the death of Mr Thomas Maemahen, which occurred ,at his residence, Riwaka, recently, the district loses one of its most highly Tespected residents and one of its outstanding personalities, reports the Nelson Mail. Born in Riwnka 85 years ago, he was the eldest son of the late Mr Bernard Macmahort, who arived in Nelson with the early ’pioneers in 1841, and shortly after took up an area of land in the Riwaka Valley.

The Christchurch Press records the death of 'Mrs John Milne, one of the early settlers of Canterbury, who arrived in the colony in 1859. f*ihe was the only daughter in a family of nine and was ’born in 1850 at Korriemuir in Forfarshire, near the “Thrums” district, made famous by Sir James Barrie. Two elder brothers arrived in New Plymouth in 1845 to join an uncle in the Hutt valley, and in 1859 her parents, Mr and Mr:; John Craighead, brought the rest of the’ family t-> Lyttelton in the sailing ship Cash-, mere,

The death of Mr Matthew Stuart Holmes at Dunedin, in his seventyninth year, has removed a ’prominent figure from the pastoral industry in the South Island. His father arrived in Now Zealand in 1859 and was for a time manager of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, for which he acquired very large holdings throughout the South Island. Mr Stuart Holmes inherited in a large degree the rural instincts of his forbear. He went to Australia and joined Messrs, Dalgety and Company, entering the firm's wool department in Sydney. On returning to New Zealand, he carried on high-class farming a: Kaknnui, where he raised fat stock of prime quality. Ho later purchased Clover Hill, Palmerston.