OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16620, 27 August 1918, Page 5

OBITUARY.

Mil THOMAS RAYMOND JONES. llr T. R. Jones, who was at one time wcil known Mlroughout; &ou>b (Jantcrbury as a partner u tlia contracsmg linn of J > alUsec and Jones, and who at that time lived in Trnaru, u»ed at Wellington <a£t weeK, at toe age of 73. Mfe R. Cutkbert, of lauer. Street, Timaru, is oue of the dt-" ceased's daughters, Mrs Uupans, of llasseU Street (formerly of Wauiohij is a. s'-ster, and lis K. J. MsKemra, of Tycho., nieoc. Mr Jones had been ailing for iha' past s's months. He wag bora at Newport, MonmouUisliis*?, Wales, in 1545, and camo to New Zealand in 1863. In; association wHQi< the late Mr Ctuilcs Palliser he was concerned v&ih. Tatiosii big works in different partis of tlia Dominion. Palliser and Jones bails the breakwaters at, limara and Oamaru, and one of the many contracts associated with the Tray costly breakwater at Xapier was carried ouO by tliem. Tn Wellington they went in for residential building in a big way. For some time past the deceased had been living in retirement a& the loirpr Hutt, but waf, still an active man no till a ftvr months ago. -As a director of the Slfersteim Bride Company ho nsed to visit the works almost every day.. When he resided in Wellington, lie was a member at different timts oF the Newtown "and "Wellington 3o»-l : ns; Clubs. and since he had WW at the Hutt he had been a li'gjhly ponidar member cf the Iom! cl«b. it -Toum lpaves a widow and a family of six {sons and four daughters.