PERSONAL.
The death has occurred at the Auckland Hospital of Mr, Edward Johnson, a veteran of the Maori wars. Mr. Johnson was born in Dublin in 1837, coming out to Hew Zealand in 185!). He worked for three years in the Waikato district as a liushnian, and joined the First Waikato Regiment on the outbreak of the Maori War. He went through a great part of the campaign, later volunteering for service in Taranaki, where he remained until the end of the war. After his discharge (in 1870 he waa cmployed a»s a bushman and laborer, and for a time was a ranger at the Great Barrier Island,
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1920, Page 4
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108PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1920, Page 4
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