OBITUARY

Te Puke Times, 3 February 1928, Page 2

OBITUARY

RICHARD CHIDLEY 1 M REYNOLDS A great pioneer of 1 industry M f passes with Richard • Chidley Reynolds, who died recently his son-in-law’s(Mr Harold castles) residence. - li Bom at Camelford, Cornwall, England, on January 17th, 185?, with his parents he came to New Zealand at the age of 14 and tied with them in the He engaged in dairy farming and made it a life long study. was a great judge of stock and at one time had four pure bred herds namely, Aberdeen Angus, Hereford, Dairy Shorthorn and Jersey. ■ At every agricultural and pastoral show of importance he.jwas a 7 *• familiar figure and bis services as* . judge were eagerly sought. great lover of trees " and . all nature’s works, his efforts ever directed to wards the better? ment of farms by judicious planting. His plantations in the ..'Sj Waikato areamonument to.|tfl||flp memory that will outlive many inscriptions. Together with his fo brother, Henry Reynolds, he the first to establish a butter fac- sM tory in New Zealand, and the , first to sh ip New Zealand prqduce **. to London for sale. the greatest industry waylaid when ' v the Pukekura - i bridge, was erectedfo Teh later the business was sold and afterwards was the nucleus-of the >•' % world’s greatest produce company, the New Zealand! Dairy * Association. He tinction many public offices, be- % ing at various times .member of the Board of Agriculture, presi- ' dent of the Waikato Central Ag- v • ricultural Association.and.of the.' Auckland Acclimatisatibn So-; 1 ciety. Whatever he undertook he- ’3 did well. -.,j§ Some years ago he -suffered; a .fo* severe stroke and since that time # has been very sick! though un-•: •? complaining, and bis end was unexpected. ... ; 1 Deceased leaves a widow and a 1 large family of grown up children. "M r They are Mr William Reynolds* ’ who is head cattle buyer for • Vesty and Co„ at Buenos Aires ! (Argentina); Mr F. J. Reynolds, fa » farmer, Thornton, WMftatan^T- ■ Mrs A. Whak- Ip 1 atane ; Mrs H. H. Clarkpof Ham- 3 ilton ; Mrs A. C. Robin, Rotorua; 5 '■ Mrs H. Hardcastle, jjptorua: 1 Mrs R. Makgill, WaiukjU ; Mrs A. . Sowman, Whangarei j and; Mr : S ■ Keith Reynolds, Cambridge.