OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 29, 29 October 1942, Page 8

OBITUARY

Mr. D. M. Mclntosh The death occurred in Hastings yesterday afternoon of Mr. D. Malcolm McIntosh, eldest son of the late Mr, 1). N. Mclntosh, Masterton, at the age of bo years. Mr. Mclntosh was for many years in the postal service, first as a telegraphist and later as postmaster at Dannevirke, Tauranga, Greymouth, Hastings, and Napier. He retired irom the service, pome years ago, since, when he had resided at Hastings. In his younger days he was a champion rifle shot, and as a member of the Otaki Rille Club frequently competed at Trenthum. On one occasion he was ruuner-up for the championship cup, and was selected as one ot the New Zealand team to go to Btsley when war broke out in 1914. In recent; years his chief pastimes were golf and howls. He was a past president of the Hastings Bowling Club . Mr. Mclntosh was twice married. His witlow is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs A 11. Vile, Hastings. His only son.’lan (by his first, wife), is on the stuff of the Bank of New Zealand, Raetihi. Nurse Mclntosh, of Mastertoil, is his sister. 1 Mr. William Tucker The death has occurred in Hastings of Mr. William Tucker, one of the oldest Dominion-born settlers of Hawkes Buy. In March of last year he had the privilege of attending the centennial celebrations of the Taranaki district, where he celebrated the anniversary of the arrival in New Zealand of his parents, just 100 years previously. Mr. Tucker’s parents came to New Zealand in 1841 in tlm sailing ship William Bryant, and Mr. Tucker himself was born in Freeman’s Bay. Auckland, .83 years ago. He was* the last of a family of eight sons Jind three daughters.. He came to Hawkd’s Bay in 1870, settling at Clive, and after the 1897 flood he shifted to the Havelock North area, where he had resided ever since. He leaves a family of eight. Mrs. A. Burton, Auckland Miss B. Tuclwr, Havelock Nortn ; Messrs. C. Tucker, Havelock North; E. Tucker, Gisborne; A. Tucker, Palmerston North; S. Tucker, Whitianga; B, Tucker, Foxton: and W. R. Tucker. Napier.