DEATH AT 95
AUCKLAND VETERAN A veteran resident of Auckland, Mr. Georges Irvine Martin, died at his home in Salisbury road, Mount Albert, last week, aged 95. Mr. Martin was bom in Ireland and arrived at Auckland in 1862 as a youth of 19, in the ship Shalimar. On the outbreak of the Waikato War in the following year he joined the militia and served in the neighbourhood of Auckland and in the Howick district. When the Westland diggings were opened, 'Mr. Martin was drawn south by the lure of gold, and had many interesting experiences of that colourful period of New Zealand history.
Leaving Westland when the field began to offer less to the efforts of the individual digger, he returned to Auckland and worked for some time at Thames, but while still a young man ho decided to abandon mining and entered the Government service as a warder in the old Auckland gaol.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 12
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