OBITUARY.
.EARLY WALItOA SETTLERS. [Pun Press Association.! WAIROA, May 23. The death is announced of Air A. G. Smith, an old Wairoa settlor. He was the champion shot of the Huranuia Alounted Rifles, and won many local trophies. Another pioneer. Air James Hanna Smyth, died yesterday. He was born in Ireland in 1832. and emigrated to Australia, and was at the Ballarat and Gabriel’s Gully gold fields. He enlisted in Dunedin in 136-1 in the Military Settlers, and the following year took part, as a sergeant-major in Fraser’s fighting fifty, in battles at THatepe. Kairomiromi and Pukomaire. being wounded in the last-mentioned engagement. Kairomiromi was one oi' the smartest engagements of the Xew Zealnd war, fifty men accounting for eighty-six of the enemy. The deceased was a member of the first Wairoa < -ounty Council in 1877, and later look part in municipal politics, school affairs and racing. He possessed a wonderful constitution, and had a great memory for the events of the old days, and possessed ail his faculties to the end.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16433, 23 May 1921, Page 7
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172OBITUARY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16433, 23 May 1921, Page 7
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