OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 13

OBITUARY

One of the early pioneers of the Do minion, Mr James Wilson, died on Friday at Wellington in his eighty-lour) h year. Born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, where lie was educated, lie travelled to XeW Zealand'in the ‘City of Glasgow, going to the. South Island and entering the. maintenance branch of the Railway Department, where he served until his retirement- some years ago. He war 22 when he arrived in tho Dominion, and married aboue five years later in Oamavu. His wife died 18 months ago. Mr Tim Donovan, a resident of Hastings for 27 years, and one of its best known and most generous citizens died on Saturday in his eightieth year. Mr Donovan was born in Kent, England, in 1855. He was a son of a soldier. His father served in the Crimean war. Sixty-five years ago, as a lad, Mr Donovan arrived with his parents in New Zealand, his. father’s regiment, the “Royal Irish,” having, been brought here fori service in the second Maori War,/ 18£|5-1870. As a young; man Mr Donovan worked on the Thames goldfields. In 11876 he married Miss Rebecca Gillhari, who survives him. There wcre.no children of the marriage. After brief residence in Wellington and Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Donovan went to Hawke’s Bay, where they had a hardware and furnishing business at Otanc for some/ years. ; Mr Donovan had a long and distinguished record of public service. For 20 years lie was a member c»f the Hastings Borough Council.