LIVED 76 YEARS IN TARANAKI

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 5

LIVED 76 YEARS IN TARANAKI

DEATH OF MR. ROBERT HUNT. ASSOCIATIONS WITH PROVINCE. Mr/Robert Hunt, who has been closely associated with the province of Tarar. naki for GO years, died suddenly in Hawera on Tuesday. Mr. Hunt was born in New Plymouth 76 years ago and spent part of his youth on Government survey work between New Plymouth and Normanby. Following that he became engaged in the pit-sawing industry, producing quantities of bridge timber. He was later employed on railways work at Greatford'and Mangaonoho, and then turned his attention to farming, taking land in the Manaia, Kapuni and Hawera districts. He retired about six years ago in Mason Road, Tawhiti, where he lived until his death. Mr. Hunt married Mrs. Ellen Shore, one of the first of Waitara’s white children, and there were 14 children. Mrs. Hunt is living at Tawhiti. The children are Messrs. Henry (Dannevirke), George (Te Aroha), Lewis (Auckland), Leonard (Hawera), Oswald (Wairoa, H. 8.), Laurence and Kenneth (Mohaka, H. 8.), Mesdames A. C. Smith (Hawera), J. Kenny (Te Aroha), A. Iles (Suva), J. T. Clague (Manaia) and N. D. Jones (Manaia), Misses N. and V. G. Hunt (Hawera). ! Mr. Hunt was a man of wonderful physique and suffered but little from ill-health during his long life.