OBITUARY

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1923, Page 4

OBITUARY

- MR C. J.E.MTFERT. There died at Wellington on .Saturday last, at the residente.of his son-in-law. Captain Leech. ; i very old identity of the Duller District, in the person of Mr Charles Lempfert. Close on sixty years sgit, “Charles”, ns he was familiarly called landed at Hokitika, from Melbourne. He engaged in mining at witat was known as the "Rig Paddock." I.titer on he went to Addison's, where no was storekeeping for some time, then to Westport, where his first hotel was, with others, washed over the bar. He next went to AVuimaiigaron, and was was the starter of the Great Republic Quart/, Company, which was successful till ii got into broken ground. Inter he visited England in connection c it Ii tnc notation of the Lioaconstield, and again had a trip to the Old Country at the time of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Oil this occasion he visited his birth-place. Schles-wig-Holstein, which had been taken by Germany from Denmark since he left home. He found that his father's estate had passed to a- young brother, hut Charley came back satisfied with a, family .heirloom, presented by a former King of Sweden. He used often in recent years to say that he and Torn Baillie were the only old identities left in Westport. Now there is only one. Xo deserving case was ever known to be turned down by him, even if lie had to give the applicant lialf-a-crown to go further on. He was predeceased by j Jus wife some eight years ago. He was a kind and affectionate father, j His four daughters are Mesdames Ala- I loncy ami Carter on the Coast, Airs Leech and Aliss Lempfert, in Wellington.