OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16739, 22 May 1922, Page 8

OBITUARY.

GEORGE MEHRTENS.

The death is announced of Mr George Mehrtens, of Kaiapoi, at the age of eighty. The late Mr Mehrtens was bora in 1842, in ‘he province of Hanover, Germany, and he was engaged in cc*. *: ii. \ pursuits until coming to New Zealand by the ship Lancashire Witch in 1863. He followed various occupations in Ohoka until 1868, when the country was covered with flax, ranpo and scrub, and when there was not a road in the district. Later on he purchased a farm of 142 acres, which he brought into a state of excellent cultivation. Mr Mehrtens retired from active work some time ago. He was married in 1867 to a daughter of Mr H. Deetjeu* of Hanover.

JOHN JAMES MOORE.

Mr John James Moore, formerly a well-known resident of Okain’s Bay, died in 8t Albans on Saturday at the age of Beventy-six years. The late Mr Moore was born in Guernsey, Ghannel Islands, in 1846. He was a ■on of the late Mr William Moore, formerly of St Peter’s Post, Guernsey, but afterwards of Okain’s Bay, and ho accompanied liis parents to New Zealand in the ship Sir George Pollock, going with them to Okain’s Bay in 1801. After being educated in the local public schools, he was engaged in pit-aawing, but afterwards found employment on his father’s farm. In 1876 he bought property on his own account and commenced farming. His farm was known as “ Lyndhurst/' being situated in + he upper part of Okain’s Bay. Mr Moore was a chuichwarden of the Anglican Church in Okain’s Bay, and he was at different periods a member of various local bodies. He was married in 1876 to Miss E. A. Ware, daughter of one of the oldest settlers in the district, and 'he had a family of three sons and three daughters.

F. W. KIRK

Mr F. W. Kirk, who .died at his residence. Murray Place, to-day, after a long illness, in his sixtieth year, was very well known in the city, where up till a few years ago, when he entered into business on his own account, he was fire loss adjnstor to the Canterbury Underwriters' Association. Prior to conning to New Zealand twenty-one rs ego. he i n the Belfast Fire Office TT 0 Korx, at Tyrelra Countv Do-vr> W r Kirk wn« of a ftr T rr ‘ anr *rnr»a n-4 P’-eoVp Hrir>o c ition H-- 1 f -o r* 'nff-Tuitv sustain “d in iiimmti th to save a A TOW TP TIC' b-'V T oloryrl T -’o twiro carried and