OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 93, 14 January 1935, Page 10

OBITUARY

Mr. J. G. Dagg, Sent. With the death at the Masterton Hospital yesterday of Mr. James George Dagg. een., ar the age of St) years, a further link with the early history and development of the Wairirapa. and especially \pf the Masterton district, has been broken, reports a Special Service message. Mr. Dagg. who .was born at Mulli"an West Meath.' Ireland, came to New Zealand, with his parents, at the age of two years, arriving in W’ellmgtop in the s.s. Westminster His parents then walked over the Rimutaka Ranges and took up farming in.Ma-s--t.erton, in which district Mr. Dagg had resided ever since. Few people can claim to have see.n the town grow as he saw Mastertori expand—from a village of five houses to its present size of .some 8000 inhabitants. When he took over a farming section at Kattuna. Masterton. some 52 years ago it was dense standing hush, practically ell of which has now been felled, and the soil worked and filled into a high . degree of fertility. During the Maori ’ War scares in the Wnirarapa. the late Mr. Dagg was a volunteer in the constabulary. . Mr. Dagg was also the first chairman of the Kaitnna School Committee, a foundation member of the Masterton Bowling Club, and an elder of Knox f'hurch. Masterton. for some 20 years. Of a quiet and retiring disposition, he did not take any very active part in public affairs. Moul t Dagg in the Tararna Ranges at the back of Masterton was named after him. and there now .stands, at the summit of that mountain, a trig, station in his memory. Predeceased by his wife some ten years ago. Mr. Dagg is survived by a fnmilv of five children, three sons, Messrs. R. D. Dagg. of Kaponga. H. W . and .T. G. Dagg. of Masterton. and two daughters.' Mesdames F. E. Truscott ami Robert Taylforth. of Masterton. There are also four sisters. Mesdames IT. Graham and W de Eisle, of Auckland. IV. Townsend, of Thames, and E T Rose, of Masterton. and one brother.' Mr. -T. T. Dagg. of Masterton.