OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12754, 25 September 1919, Page 8

OBITUARY.

JOSEPH NEALE. Tho late Mr Joseph Neale, who died suddenly yesterday morning, was bom. in Auckland in 1845. He was apprenticed to tho building trade, but at the age of seventeen, when the Maori war broke out, joined tho No. 1 Auckland Koval, Company of Volunteers, under Captain Howell. Mr Neale saw much active service in the Maori war and was awarded the Maori War Medal and granted a pension. When the war was over Mr Neale left Auckland for the West Coast, diggings, first trving his lucK at the mining centre of Eoss. After working a claim with little success, ho linked up with a road-making team, but soon tired of this and returned to the goldfields, where he had many exciting experiences- Mr Nealle subsequently returned to Auckland to meet his father, who was returning to New Zealand after a trip Home. After spending some eighteen months in Auckland he went to Otago on a building CO ?i£ n ?i‘ 'Tn he heard of the goldfields at Naseby. and at once made ms way there. He remained in Naseby for seven years, experiencing many exciting adventures, on one occasion narrowly escaping being buried alive in a tunnel which he was digging. After leaving Nasehy Mr Neale went to the Livingstone goldfield, forty miles finland from Oamaru, where he also had many interesting exneriencos. Mr Neale had been resident in Christchurch for about nineteen years past and was extremely popular and higlhly respected by all those with whom he came in contact.