OBITUARY.

Wairarapa Age, 21 August 1934, Page 5

OBITUARY.

MR. GEORGE MOORE BENB. The death occurred at Eparaima yesterday of Mr. George Moore Sent., a pioneer settler who had spent eighty years of his life on the Lst Coast. The late Mr. Moore, who was 92 years of age, was very well-known and highly respected throughout the district. He was a pioneer in the true sense of tbyword. When he arrived at Waikaraka with his father, Masterton had not been founded. Mr. Moore was quite active until two or three months ago and his end was a very peaceful one.

Born in Kent, England, in 1841, the late Mr. Moore left the Old Country in 1853 in the sailing ship Constantine, with his father, Mr. John Moore, and other members of the family, for New Zealand, where he arrived in January, 1854, after a trip of eight or nine months, during which time land was never sighted until New Zealand was reached. After a short period in Wellington his father took up a property on the East Coast known as Waikaraka, where Mr. Moore had resided ever since, except for short breaks in Wellington during the session when he was engaged in official duties as a clerk of the Legislative Council, to which position he was appointed in 1875, retiring in 1908. The estate was divided in 1874, the late Mr. Moore receiving the northern portion, known as Eparaima. For a time he was chairman of the Whareama Road Board. In 1880 he married the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas jMaaon, of Lower Hutt. The first sheeip for Waikaraka were 'driven from Wellington along the coast, a journey occupying three weeks, the beach being the only means »f access to the East Coast and also to Hawke’s Bay. Waikaraka became known as a recognised stopping place !0n the journey to and from Hawke’s Bay. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends will be extended to the bereaved relatives in their loss. The late Mr. Moore is survived by two sons, Messrs George Moore, of Waikaraka, and John Moore, of Eparaima, and one Mrs. R. H. Aitken, of Whenuahou Waipawa. The funeral is appointed -for to-morrow afternoon at 2.30 o’clock at Eparaima, where the interment will take place. MB. HENRY RAINEY. SPEAKER OF THE AMERICAN HOUSE. (Received Monday, 5.5 p.m.) ST. LOUIS (Missouri), August 19. Mr. Henry Rainey, speaker of the House of Representatives, died on Sunday night. Mr. Rainey, who was seventy-two vears of age, had been under hospital treatment for bronichial pneumonia, but his death occurred unexpectedly.