MR. ARTHUR H. BOOTH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19550, 4 February 1938, Page 7

MR. ARTHUR H. BOOTH

DEATH IN AMERICA

WELL KNOWN IN GISBORNE

A resident of Beloit, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Mr. Arthur H. Booth, well known to the -oldeir residents of Gisborne as a young Rugby player and a representative oarsman of the Gisborne Rowing Club, died at the municipal hospital of his home town on December 21. News of his death Will come as a shock to his many friends in Gisborne as it is not long Since word was received that he and Mrs. Booth were in England and had renewed acquaintance with another old member of the Gisborne Rowing Club, Mr. W. Barrington Miller. Stepping, outside his house in the evening, a few days before his death, Mr. Booth slipped on the ice on the path and fell heavily. Subsequently he suffered pain in his arm and was admitted to hospital for an X-ray examination. No bones were broken and he was able to return home. His condition did not improve and he was readmitted to hospital, where he died. The deceased, who was 09 years of age, was a son of one of the early magistartes In Gisborne, the late Mr. James Booth, and was born in Wanganui. After receiving his education at the Wanganui Collegiate School Mr. Booth came to Gisborne for a vacation with his parents and secured a position in the office of Messrs. Common, Shelton and Company, Limited. At that time he would be about 15 years of age. While in Gisborne he joined the rowing club. Later he secured a position on a station managed by Mr. A. H. Wallis at Waipiro Bay and at the age of 25 years left New Zealand to try his fortunes overseas.

For 13 years‘he was sales representative for. a firm in Wisconsin, and in 1902 was married to another New Zealander living in the United States, Miss Justina Scoley. In 1906 they Went to Beloit and purchased a dry goods and women’s furnishing store. Mr. Booth was highly respected in business circles. ;

For several years the deceased was president of the associated charities organisation. Besides the widow, there is a daughter, Miss Margaret Booth, two Sisters and three brothers to mourn their loss. The sisters, one of whom is Miss A. A. Booth, Gisborne, and ihe Other, Mrs. Arthur Richardson, and the brothers, Messrs. Hector, George, •ind Walter Booth, all live in New Zealand.