OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 7

OBITUARY.

REV. BARTON 11, GINGER. The dcntli occurred yesterday of the Row Barton Henry- GiiiKcr, the wellknown pastor of the Lower Hutt Metho* disfc Circuit. Nearly 30 years ago Mr. (linger entered the ministry <jf tho Church then tcivawit as the Hiblo Christian Denomination.: After rei|<k'riiig good service, in England and Wales, lie came to New Zealand h\ 1889, where as a Biblo Christian minister •Iμ worked successfully in the Christehurch, Croinwoll, and Aldington Circuits. When tho Bible Christian Church united \fitli_ tire Methodist Church, ho became a niinistei of the United Church, working at> Hokitik.l, Oxford, I.awrMice, South Wairarapa, "Wqodvillo, and Lower Hutt'. Ho loaves ft widow and family. Whofevor ho was known, lie will long bo remembered as n faithful pastor, and an earnest prenoter. Outside of the Church lie interested himself in friendly society work, and ho was a tireless worker in the temperance movement, Tin? funeral. , will probably take place to-morrow.

MR. WALTER RAMSDEN.

Mr. Walter Rnmsdei'i, manager of tho Wellington Woollen Company's mill at Potone, died unexpectedly yesterday ; afternoon after a very brief illness, Mr. Ramsdo)!. wild' had been suiTei-inR from heart trouble, had lieo-n advised by tvi'o doctors on Monday tlssi' lie would have to take things quietly' for : some, timo to coino, but it was not then apparent that his condition .at tho ''moment was serious. The deceased gentleman was born in Yorkshire in iB6O, and came out to New Zealand ri tho ago of twenty, obtaining employment at tho Kainpni Woolkm Hills as. a. power loam tuner, a position which : ho hold for .five years. Mr. Ra.msden, senior, who had boon chief designer <t Bliss's celebrated tweed mills at Chipping Norton, Yorkshire, wn-s .appointed, first malinger of tho Ashburton milte, ft ml Mr. Walter Ramsden Wos engaged there as his assistant. When t\o Potono mills wero ope-ned it was with Mr. Ramsden, senior, as mill manager, and it was Nndoir his diro.otkm tbat tho practical work of establiishmg this 'important industry was carried out. Mr. Walter R-nmsdeii was also -aJssotiated with tire work froin the start as woavin.ft manngfer, a position wliioh ho held until, 18fl3, when lie was appointed to the yiostioM of' mill maitfttmr, .onoupied , by him until Jits cleath. 3'fi , . RamsdoM vvfls married ih iflGo to. the second dauKhtef of Mr. John Entwcll, of Nelson, and is survived by Jiis wife tiiid three soiis. ■