DEATH AT 57

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 16

DEATH AT 57

MR. GEORGE RACE 4> YEARS' WAR SERVICE w A returned soldier, Mr. George Race, who served with the New Zealand' Tunnelling Company, died at his home, 512 Palmerston road, yesterday afternoon, aged 57. The deceased was born in Durham, and before- coming to New Zealand was employed in lead and iron ore mines in the Homeland. He landed in the Dominion in 1908 and found work on contracts in various parts of the North Island. Early in 1913 he took up work at the Wai'hi gold mines and it was from there that he enlisted with the main body of the New Zealand. Tunnelling Company. Mr. Race was 4£ years away from New Zealand and on his return worked around • Auckland before settling in Gisborne. He was married here in 1924 to Miss Lucy Midwinter.

Mr. Race had experienced indifferent health during the past seven or eight years. ,He is survived by his widow and two children. Mr. John Joseph Race, Gladstone road, a brother of the deceased, is the only other relative in New Zealand.

A service will be held at Mr. Race's late residence at 2.30 p.m. to-day prior to the departure of the funeral for the soldiers' plot at the Taruheru cemetery.