OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16845, 22 September 1922, Page 6

OBITUARY.

MR W!LLIAM SANSOM.

The death is announced of Mir W“ liam Szmsom. one of the narly onach drivers of Canterbury, at the age of seventy—nine. 311‘ Sansom‘s rleath took place at 47, liansfield Avenue. St AlbnnsV He was born in Surrey, England, in 1844, and came to New Zealand in the ship Ash lmrton in 1857" afterwards becoming :1 otm‘l‘h proprietor and mail ronti‘actor in North Canterbury. \\'hen the railway was (-Oinpleted to Amberley. and the coaching days Farm» .0 an owl Mr Sansom took up farming on :1 property of 300 acres, at Southbroak. He took a keen interest in )lasonir nfinirs, and was :1. ms-m‘ner of the ("r-aft, for over forty yom‘x Ho was also commuted “ ith the Kainimi \Yonllpn anpuny. of \slliCll lu“ was one of tho pi‘mnnters, uni for many year: :1 member of the board of fliTPth‘l'h. In his rlay lie was a not able hmi'ir‘r. aurl ho had a fine rerm'd a 5 :1 skip 4m the green. For some years lir- plan-«l on the St Albans green but last FOHFHH his infirmity prevented him joining: in 1110 gnmn except. on one or two rare- ocumimh. He was of a most genial disposition. was a most, interesting man to talk to. He 11nd an inexhaustible fund of reminiscences of the early (lays, and he roulil 1'01:th them with mnrli humour and animation. Ht“, was held in high esteom by a very “irlo (-irc-le of acquaintam'ES all over ('nntex'hury ,