KAIKOURA KORERO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11763, 29 July 1916, Page 11

KAIKOURA KORERO.

: [Feoji Oub Coheespondbnt.] Tha- condition of Mr John Wallace is'causing-his relatives and friends uuch concern. Tliis old-time resident jf the Conway Hills homestead has 'been ailing for some yearsMr Charles Evans, another of the . jrand band of early settlers, has also Jeen ill lately. Latest bulletins are of a hopeful nature. Bridging Wandal Stream (on the Waiau-K&ikoura Road) is a piece of work motor-car drivers are calling out i'or. The Wandal stuck up rhe mail car for .3 couple of days, and even ax the end thereof was. difficult of passage. Trouble is being experienced by the Eapuku Dairy Factory Company in ooraming a manager. Its first choice declined the appointment (having got a better one), tis also did their second and third selections. The directors . then telegraphed Mr J. T. Graham, at Carterton, to got them a manager. On Monday, Mr George Chapman rried when within hail of his eightysixth year. Deceased was born at Dentling, near Maidstone, in 1830, and was proud of tlie fact that he was a man of Kent." _ He came out to New Zealand _ with his parents, landing in Nelson in 1842. His first work was under the New Zealand Land Co'mpnnv. Next he served with " the Father of the New Zealand Turf." the late Mr Henry Redwood. With that "grand old man" he drove the first lot of shep from Nelson to the Wairau Valley. After his marriage ho was engaged on Bank House "run (Monroe's), thence to Flaxbourne and (with his wife) on to Kaikoura in 1863, continuing a Kaikoura resident to the end. His wife die 4 some years aco. The surviving family, sons, daughters and Grandchildren, number 134. Deceased aid a fair share of work in river (Koconservation. 1 His hobbies were arboriculture and horticulture. Travellers between Kaikoura and Blenheim can see the results of some of his work in the fine bluegums growing qn the TJre Riverbed, at Mr van Asch's, above the railway bridge.