OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 2

OBITUARY

Airs. Alary Annie Pauli, widow ot the late Mr. R. J. Pan'll, a former proprietor of tlie Waikato Times, died at Hamilton a few da vs ago at the age of 82 years.

One of the original settlers of Canterbury, Air. Charles Cleaver, died at Norma iiby. South Taranaki, recently, aged 86 years. He was a son of Mr. H. Cleaver, who was sent by the Plymouth Company with 359 other persons in the sailing ship Crossy to found tho settlement .

Air. John Clegg, whose death occurred at Nelson recently, had an eventful career. Most of his business life was spent in Dunedin, where lie was widely known. He bad made Nelson his headquarters in recent years, but most of his time was spent abroad in continuation of his hobby of travelling. He had ‘‘crossed the line” no less than 39 times.

A chieftaincs,s of the Ngnti-Alania-poto tribe, Te Kanma Totorewa, a few days ago died at her home at Te Kumi, near Tc Kuiti, at the age of 90. She was a link with the days hcfoic the European penetrated tho King Country. Her husband was the late Al'anukura Te Afahuki, who strenuously objected to exploration in Rohe Potae. Te Kanma Totorewa had been a very active woman until about a year ago. The death has occurred in Hamilton of Air. George Henry Oldham, at the age of Of). Mr. Oldham was born at Alaiiiignturoto, and spent most iff his life in ihe Waikato. When the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, was formed in 1919 he became organiser of the company’s herdtesting department. He was later engaged in farm instructional work for the company.

Ail Auckland exchange, records the death of Mr. John Murdoch, of Northcote, aged 64. lie was born near Dunedin. and at the. age of 21 went to the West Australian goldfields, where he spent, 10 years working, at Jvnlgoorlie. C'oolgardie and Boulder City. After returning to Dunedin he was engaged in the waterworks department of tho Dunedin City Council, and later as constructional engineer for the Otago Harbour Board at Dunedin. Mr. Murdoch served with the New Zealand Engineers for three years during the Great War in Belgium and France. He was badly gassed. On corning to Auckland he was engaged with the Lands Department on reelamat ion works on the Hauvaki Plains.

One of the enrliesi surviving settlers of Auckland, Mr. D. B. Wallace, died in Iteniuera on Saturday. He was horn in Dundee in 18-to, but his association with Auckland dated hack to the time when it was a very modest settlement consisting of little beyond Short land crescent, as Short land street was tlii'ii called, High street, and a little of Queen street. With his mother, Mr. Wallace went to Auckland in 18,’i‘t in the ship Bank of Mugland when lie was nine years old. In IStiti he went with mi expedition to the West Const goldfields. For two years lie carried on business as a timber merchant at Creymouth, and then returncl to spend six years on the Thames goldfields. His next ventures were in sawiiiilling at Wliangnpoim aim at Turiia, and later he settled at Koliukohu, where lie became manager of the Ilokianga Sawmills Company.