OBITUARY

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1933, Page 9

OBITUARY

MR. WILLIAM CLEMENT CARGILL News was received in Wellington on Saturday morning of the death the previous evening of Mr. William Clement Cargill, well known in the newspaper world as the managing-director of the Cargill Publishing Company, which publishes the Morrinsville Star, the Putaruru Press, and the Matamata Record in the South Auckland district. The late Mr. Cargill, who was 63 years of age, was the son of the Rev. C. Cargill, of River, in Kent, England. He was educated at Newport, Dulwich and Heidelburg (Germany). Seeking wider fields of enterprise, he came to New Zealand as a young man, and, going to the Wairarapa, he acquired the Wairarapa Star in 1892, and, in association with Mr. A. C. Major, changed its title to the Wairarapa Age. Later he sold out in the Wairarapa, and, in 1904, acquired the Patea Press, which he retained for four years, when he founded the Pukekohe Times, which he controlled from 1911 to 1914. Mr. Cargill purchased the Morrinsville Star in 1915, End had remained there ever sinceAs a young man Mr. Cargill was very actively associated with sport. He represented Wairarapa, Wanganui, and Taranaki in the cricket field, and later was a keen tennis player. From 1906 to 1908 he was a member of the Wanganui Education Board; for the two succeeding years he was a member of the Taranaki Education Board, and was president of the New Zealand Master Printers’ Federation from 1928 to 1930. The late Mr. Cargill is survived by his widow and two daughters. MR. JOHN WILLIAM BARRON. The death occurred suddenly about 1.15 on Saturday afternoon of Mr. John William Barron, tablet porter on the railway staff at Ngaio. Mr. Barron, who was aged 53, had been at work on Friday, but feeling unwell on Saturday sent a son of a neighbour to the railway station to tell them that he would be unable to be at work that afternoon. When the lad returned to inform him that he had delivered the message, he found that Mr. Ban-on had passed away. He had complained earlier in the day that he was suffering from indigestion, but it Is assumed that the cause of death was heart failure. It is probable that an Inquest will be held. Boni at Inglewood, the late Mr. Barron entered the service of the Railway Department as a surfaceman, but was later transferred to the traffic branch as a tablet porter. He had had 23 years’ service, five of which had been spent at Ngaio. He leaves a widow, who is at present spending a holiday in Wanganui, and five step-children. The funeral will take place to-morrow.