OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR. AUGUST SCHWABE DEATH AT HALM HUSTON N. PAST DOTH BIRTHDAY There died at Palmerston North last night one of the comparatively lew New Zealanders who have attained to nearly fhe century of life. He was Air. August: Schwa be, father of Air. Paul Schwab.;, of Gisborne, and formerly one ol Napier’s most highly-respected residents. Throughout, the past- 60 years he had been living in New Zealand, and having in his earlier years studied at close quarters the relations of European Slates, he possessed a fund of information on which he bused .many astonishingly correct forecasts of international events. The late Mr. -Schwabe was, born .% Germany, and lived under live sovereigns. Emperors William I. and William Jl. of Germany, Queen Victoria} King Edward VJI.. and King George V. lie was put to the tailoring trade as a youth, and continued _ in it until liis retirement in comparatively; recent years. Up to within a week of his death he had enjoyed the use of all his faculties, and continued (o take a. keen interest in national and internaiional developments, which he -discussed with animation. He was proud of his' longevity, and attributed it to plain Irving' and systematic exercise, with walking as a principal feature. He was a smaker from his youth. Alo.st of the late Air. Schwabe’s younger life was spent in Berlin, and he was in the German capital when the Franeo-Prussian War broke out. He was called to the German colors as: a reservist, and whs actually entranced for the front when the campaign ended with dramatic suddenness. The experience was not one which Air. Sclnvabe ‘oiiteiiiphited repeating. He i'orosuuy dial the Fra neo-Prussian War \yas bill the prelude to a greater outbreak of hostilities, and with many others of his nation he decided that Europe-was nod, a place to remain in with any pro;i : | peels of long-continued peace. g ]h> decided to emigrate, and sailed., fur New Zealand late in 1874. arriving fit Napier on Alareh 18, 1875. Six weeks later he was naturalised as a British national. and. settling ill Napier, he soon established a bushiest which was well known in Hawke’s Bay until lale years. Jn 1929 Mr. Sehwiihe lost his wife;and thereupon moved to Palmerstot) North, where lie had been living since with his daughter. Mrs. G. O. Fischer. He is survived by Mrs. Fischer and one other daughter, Airs. J. Carter, of Napier, and by three sons, the second, Mr. K. Sclnvabe, being news editor on the -Sydney Labor Daily and formerly a member of the Parliamentary PressGallery at Wellington. The other sons are Mr. P. Schwa he. of the Poverty Ray Herald, and Air. AY. Sclnvabe, of Ghureli street, Palmerston North. Thereare also 10 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren of the lale Air. Sclnvahell