OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 2

OBITUARY

IIF. H. A. FLINT (Special to tho Herald.) WAIROA, this day. The death occurred in Wairoa on Tuesday of Mr. Henry Ainsworth Flint, at the age of 64 years. Mr. Flint had been residing for some lime with a cousin, Mr. W. H. Flint. Napier road, and had been suffering from ill-health for some weeks. A son of Mr. Henry Flint, a pioneer of the district £»j}d for a number of years proprietor of the Clyde Hotel, the late Mr, Flint was born in Wairoa, receiving*his education in Christchurch. Mr. Flint was engaged in the timber milling industry for many years, retiring eight years ago and coming to reside in Wairoa. Mr. Flint never married, but he had several relatives here and in other parts of New Zealand. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, the service being conducted by the Rev. C. E. Hyde. REV. GEORGE T. MARSHALL LONG SERVICE TO CHURCH The death of the Rev. George Thomas Marshall, aged 85, occurred this week in Sandringham, Auckland. Mr. Marshall had been in ill-health for some time. Born in Warwickshire, England, in 1853, Mr. Marshall came to the Dominion in 1881 and two years later entered the Methodist ministry. At different times he was in charge of the Mangawhare, Paparoa, Tauranga, Opunake, Richmond, Pukekohe, Warkworth, Eketahuna, Otautau and Port Chalmers circuits. Mr. Marshall retired in 1916 and went to Auckland from Port Chalmers. He had lived there since. Mr. Marshall was acting-principal of the Methodist Theological College in 1919, and from 1917 to 1934 was treasurer of the Methodist Foreign Missionary Board. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and six sons. MR. THOMAS HALLETT The death has occurred of Mr. Thomas Hallett, aged 90 years, a prominent figure in Rotorua and one of the most enthusiastic golfers in the North Island. He was particularly fond of an outdoor life and was so ardent a golfer that up to a few days before his. death he played a round of golf every morning over the Arikikapakapa course. He helped to lay out these links when he first went to Rotorua, frequently joining working parties of members on the greens and fairways. He was a regular competitor in the veterans’ golf tournaments at Rotorua. Mr. Hallett was probably the oldest New Zealand born resident. He was born at Wellington in 1846, being the second son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hallett. who arrived in New Zealand in 1842. He went to Hawke’s Bay with his parents about 1850. In comoany with his younger brother, the late Mr. Enoch Hallett, for many years borough engineer in Hastings, hg was engaged for some years in surveying on behalf of the Government lands in the Taupo district. At the time of the Opepe engagement he was camped at the Crow's Nest at Taupo and was one of the first arrivals at Opepe who discovered the I slaughtered soldiers.

A well-known former primary headmaster, and ex-president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, Mr. Arthur Joseph Charles Hall, died in Mount Eden, Auckland, on Monday, aged 67-