OBITUARY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 61, 10 April 1946, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR WILLIAM BERNARD DUDSON The death occurred in" the Palmerston North hospital on Monday of a well-known and highly esteemed settler of the Moutoa district BSL& later resident of Foxton, in the person of Mr William Bernard Dudson, aged 78 years. The late Mr Dudson. was born at Kaiapoi on March 6, 1868, and received his education at the Kaiapoi School. He was engaged

in the flax industry for a period from 1890, when he was employed at his brother’s mill at Paiaki. He was married in Foxton in 1892. In. 1907, he left the flax work to take up farming in the Moutoa, and spent the next twenty-one years there; where he became well known, and was highly esteemed' by all with whom he came in contact. Eighteen ■' years ago, he retired from farming, and took up residence in Foxton, where he lived up till approximately seven weeks ago, when he was com-, pelled to enter the hospital. He is survived by his wife and a grownup family of four sons and four., daughters. • They are Messrs. Fred (Te Aroha), Walter (Christchurch), Sid (Palmerston North) and Cliff Dudson (Whakatane) and Mesdames S. McDowell (Hamilton), V. McDowell (Palmerston North), N. E. Hughes (Foxton) and Miss Gladys Dudson (Foxton). There are 24 grand children, and four greatgrandchildren. Four brothers survive deceased. They are Messrs. James (Tauranga), Joseph (Carterton), Philip (Whakatane) and Walter Dudson (Gisborne).