OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 16

OBITUARY

MR. THOMAS CORKERY The sudden death of Mr. Thomas Corkery .at the wharf yesterday afternoon cast a gloom over the waterfront, there being two ships in port at the time, on which discharging and loading ijierations were being carried out. Flags were flown at half-mast on both vessels. The deceased was born in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1865, and came to New Zealand at the age of 21 years. He resided for a short while in Wellington before proceeding to Foxton. where lie was employed for some time in a flaxmill. As an employee of the Railway Department he was stationed for 19 years in the Wairarapa district, being transferred in 1913 to Otoko as a ganger. Mr. Corkery was moved to Gisborne in 1915, and a few years later retired from the railway service. Since then he bad been engaged on waterfront work. In 1901 Mr. Corkery married iri Wellington Miss Norah Teresa Caffery. Mr. Corkery was one of the most popular members of the Gisborne Waterside Workers’ Union and was of a most genial disposition. The sympathy of a large number of friends will be extended to those who remain to mourn their loss, these including, besides Mrs. Corkery, one daughter, Mrs. J. Fitzpatrick, Opotiki, and one son, Mr. T. J. Corkery, Gisborne. The interment took place at Taruhcru cemetery this afternoon.

After a very short illness the death occurred in Masterton recently of Mr. Henry Francis G. Frost, orchard inspector of the Department of Agriculture, Masterton, at the age of 58 years.

Mr. John Wells, aged 86 years, of Hikurangi, one of the first white children born in the Far North, died this week in . Whangarei. Dir. Wells was born at Awanui and spent most of his youth in that district.

The • death occurred suddenly at “The Vicarage,” Huntervillc, of the Rev. Alfred Cyril Rwainsson, vicar of the parish. Born in Warwickshire in 1885, Mr. Swainson was educated privately, his father 'being for some time chaplain to the British Embassy at Berne, Switzerland. He went to Cambridge as a student at Selwyn College and graduated B.A. In 1907 ho went to Canada with the intention of farming, but in 19.14 was ordained priest bv the Bishop of Qu’Appelle. For the next six years he served in the parishes of Bassano, Medicine Hat and Calgary, and came to New Zealand in 1920.