OBITUARY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 25 August 1923, Page 5

OBITUARY

PREMIER KATO OF JAP AX.

Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Tokio, August 24. The death of Premier Kato is offiicially announced.

Admiral Baron Tomosaburo was 63 years of age, having been Prime Minister since June 1922. He entered the Navy When 12 years of age, later studying naval gunnery jn England. He was Chief of Staff.,,in the Russia-Japanese War under the late Admiral Togo. At the outbreak of the European war he was Com-inander-in-Chief of the First Squadron and next Minister of the Navy, He was raised to the Peerage for his national services. He was present at the Washington Conference as one’ of Japan’s delegates.

A London cable says Madame Clara Butt's elder son Roy died following on operation for meningitis. He was 20 years of age. He had just left Eton and was going to Oxford. He promised to be a brilliant cricketer.

Mr William Adams, a prominent figure in racing circles on the East Coast for many years, and who gained distinction as a despatch rider during the Te Kootl rising in the early days of the Poverty Bay district, died at Gisborne recently at the age of 82 years. > /■ ; r :

The death took place this morning at Lower Hutt, of Mary Charlotte, only daughter of Nurse Walker, of Rosalind Street, StratfowjL at the early age of 15 years. The deceased was for a short time a scholar at the Stratford Convent School, and' was beloved by all. Much sympathy is felt for Nurse Walker in her sad bereavement.

The death is reported from Christchurch of Mr Charles Gamble, father of Mesdames C Austin and E. G. Foster, of Stratford, at the age of 72. Mr Gamble came to new Zealand from Kent, England, fifty-two years ago and settled in Christchurch, afterwards taking up land, in the North Canterbury district. Mr Gamble leaves a widow, three sons and nine daughters.

Mrs Kabul, a Maori woman, who died recently at Taumarunui, was born in the Waikato In 1820. She was, therefore, quite a girl wlmii the first pakeha house was erected at what is now the city of Auckland. Another of Auckland’s early settlers, Mr John Clarke, died at his residence, Runcimau, recently, in his 91st year. Mr Clarke had an eventful life, and had spent 68 years in New Zealand. He left six sons

and two daughters, 34 grandchildren, and eight great-grand-children.

The death took place this morning j after a long illness, of an old and j respected settler in the person of | Air Daniel Knight Gooch at the advanced age of 94 years. The late Mr Gooch, who was born at Ha/sworth, Suffolk (England) had been 51 years in New Zealand, and had pent most of that time In the, Stratford district, where ho was well known. He has been ailing for the , past fifteen years. He is survived j by three sons and two daughters: j Mrs W. Collins, (Rosalind Street, j Stratford), Mrs W. Rowe, (Warwick l Road), and (sons) Charles and j Frederick (Makahu), and Thomas ■ (Huintra). There are thirty-eight j grandchildren and forty-eight groat ‘ grandchildren, *