OBITUARY
MR. M. FITZGERALD. The death has occurred at Mangaiti of Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, aged 88. Born in Tralee, County Kerry, he came to New Zealand at the age of 20. He took up a block of bush country at Kaponga, Taranaki, he and his wife being the only white people in the district. He was for many years a member of the Eltham County Council and chairman of the Kaponga Dairy Company. Mr. Fitzgerald went to Mangaiti in 1909, where he broke in the Linwood estate, converting it from scrub into rich dairying land. He is survived by three sons and five daughters.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 8
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104OBITUARY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 8
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