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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16510, 22 August 1921, Page 6

Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., is an inmate of Bottle Lake Hospital, suffering from measles. Mr William Duncan Kibblewhite, a very old settler, died on Friday afternoon at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr J. D. Cameron, at Eastbourne. The late Mr Kibblewhite was born in Wellington m 1843, and lived with his parents on the Old Porirua Road, and later at the Lower Hutt. On the formation of the Wairarapa Small Farm Settlement, he went to Masterton in advance of Ills father, to look after the farm on the Upper Plain, where he did his .full share of pioneering work. After a period as a business man in Masterton he again ventured into farming when the Pahiatua district was thrown open for settlement, and afterwards went farming at Fitzherbert, Palmerston North. He retired some years ago owing to failing health. The late Mr Kibblewhite was well known as a bowler in Palmerston North, Wanganui, Masterton, and Wellington.