PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1932, Page 6

PERSONAL

Messrs. R. Bruce Lucas and S. A. Goldingham, Palmerston North, spent the week-end at New Plymouth. Mr. J. Young has been re-elected chairman of directors of the Oaonui Dairy Company.

Sympathy with Messrs. E. G. and G. A. Holmes in their bereavement, also with the relatives of the late Moa Moctahuna, was expressed at the annual meeting of the Oaonui Dairy Company on Saturday. The death occurred at Masterton on Friday of Mr. Edmund Herne Buckeridge, aged 87 years. Mr. Buckeridge was an old and highly respected resident of the Wairarapa. He leaves three sons and two daughters. The death occurred suddenly at Christchurch of Mr. Stanley Livingstone Mark, aged 48, a former resident of New Plymouth. Mr. Mark married Miss Ruby Hurlo, daughter of Mr. •, Herbert Hurle, Hine Street, New Plymouth.

Mr. Josiah Keys,- Toiro, celebrated his 103rd birthday on Friday, states a Dunedin message. He was visited by the Mayor of Balclutha, and received Domin-ion-wide congratulatory messages. He had many adventures in Ireland, United States of America and Cuba before coming to New Zealand. • The death occurred at Liverpool on July 29, in his 80th year, of Sir Henry Deacon, elder brother of Mr. O. Deacon, New Plymouth. Sir Henry Deacon was a prominent public man in Liverpool where he was Vice-Chancellor of the University, chairman of the County Council and chairman of the Liverpool Gas Company. The death of Sir Owen Cox, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Coiincil and a director of the Federal Steam Navigation Company, aged 66, is reported from Sydney. Formerly a bank official, subsequently in business in Taranaki, Sir Owen Cox was for many years associated with Birt and Co., shippers and exporters, in Southland and elsewhere.

The death occurred at Wellington on Friday of Mr. David McCrae, aged 85, founder of a city firm. The late Mr. Mcßae was born in Ayrshire, and he first came to New Zealand in 1885. In 1892 he went to Canada, where he took a prominent part in Caledonian Society activities, being chief of the Guelph Society for a period. He epent five years in Canada and then went to South Africa. Early in 1889 Mr. McCrae returned to New Zealand, and he has remained in the Dominion ever since. In 1910 he opened a mattress factory at Johnsonville, and, in association with his sons, he continued in active business up to the beginning of his illness a fortnight ago. Mr. McCrae, was an energetic worker for the Presbyterian Church and had been associated with St. Columba Church, Johnsonville, since 1906. For some time he was a senior elder of this church. In addition to his wife, he leaves five daughters and three sons.

A resident -of the Tauranga district for 56 years, Mr. John Cuthbert Adams died recently at the age of 78. Mr, Adams was born at Kettering, Northamptonshire, and in 1874 left England in the ship City of Auckland, arriving at Auckland. After being on the Thames goldfields he returned to Auckland, and in September, 1876, proceeded to Tauranga. He was engaged as a building contractor, and erected numerous schools, post offices, business premises and houses in the Tauranga and Te Puke districts. Mr. Adams served on various local bodies and was Mayor for two years. Mr. Adams was a member of the Polynesian Society and was a recognised authority on the Maori history of the Bay of Plenty and on Maori genealogy. He took a prominent part in the restoration of headstones in the military cemetery erected in memory of the military and naval officers and men who fell at Gate Pa and other battles in the neighbourhood. He was also interested in the erection of the memorial to the notable chief, Rawiri Puhiraki. He is survived by four sons and seven daughters, including Mrs. A. S. Clark (New Plymouth).