OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1913, Page 29

OBITUARY

MR. PETER MALLON,.CHATTON. We regret to report the death of one of the oldest settlers in the Chatton district, in the person of Mr. Peter Mall on, who passed away at his residence on Sunday, April 27. Th& deceased, who was in his 75th year, was born in the County: Tyrone in 1838. In ,1862 he left for Australia, eventually coming over to New Zealand during the gold rush on the West Coast. Later he went to St. Bathans, Central Otago, where he engaged in mining for some ten or twelve years. He took up his: present holding at Chatton in 1878, and which he had farmed successfully ever since. He was married in 1882 to a sister of the late Mesdames D. Ryan and P. Flanagan. He as a man of sterling qualities, and was well known and highly respected throughout the district. Besides his widow, there are left seven sons and two daughters to mourn their loss. —R.I.P. ' '