TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

JIV TKl.lK.itAl'll l*!■:It I-lIICS.- ASSOCIATION a sncinK. ASIIHCIiTOX. I)■■<•• :!*. A siiiriili' under ilii- most distressing circumstances tool; plnfe lit Hivetside. Ashburton, on Hoc. 2!>tli. Tin* <lec,.;,scd, Knn Mi-Master, il.ncd TJ. was for some till' ■ caretaker at tin* Acelima t isatiuii Ifescrve id 11akat ere, lint since* then lu* lind lived with his wile mid I family in extreme poverty. Deceased hjld on seven*! oeeiisions thi'eiltelie‘l to tnlte his own mid his wile’s lilt*. A sell inllieted wound with n razoi nhove the left elliow was the cause of death. A letter to a young son regarding the disposal of various articles v.as written by deceased oil the hack of a letter front the Kditor of the hristehnreh Star, complimenting him on winning second prize in the Star’s eom|H't'.lion poem on the bridge ol ronienihrnnce. '[’lie district coroner, .fames Gow, eoudueletl a eoroner's inquest yesterday. The evidence showed that Mi-Master served for nine months in tin* Kuropean war and after home service since his return was subject to repeated fits ol depression. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from a sellinflieted wound while suffering from had health, and depression, lie added a rider that a service man in his anxiety lot the welfare and health of his wife and family, should not have Ix'en allowed by his country, which he had faithfully served, and whose end was according to the evidence, brought about by bad health, to live and die under conditions of extreme poverty.