OBITUARY.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1924, Page 1

OBITUARY.

T)imt"h not known to the yomi"er KCiKTiitiim of West Coa.xtei's, the news ot the death of .Mrs Curie will he re—ceived with sin,’ere re"ict hy many old Iricmls on the Coast, 'J'he old lady wlio had reached the ripe a"e of NS years, was liviii" with her son, Mr .J. Dawes, in Devonpoct, Auckland. Nile had, hcen in failiii" health for some years. The past severe winter hove, or, proved too much for her and s.-e pas'-d away painlessly, surrounded hy I "i- lamilv. after a hui", well spent, rad inisehish life. Ihr- deceased lady came out in Xew Zealand in the ship Waitaii"i in 'IN7O. Ihe lollowiii" year .she married .Mr

ihivid Curl', at that time one of the proprietors ol tlie Wellington Cliron-u-h.-. Shortly afterwards .Mr Curia, who in the early days had a paper called the Ross (limrdian, came hack to Ike Coast, event na.lly establishing the Hokitika Cuardiau which lie ran for

'ome twelve years, when the paper which had hocn amalgamated with Ihe Evening Star, was taken ever I>y his siep-sati, Mr Dawes, and he and Mrs furl' 1.-it I'm- the North Island. Mr

Curie purchased the Dannevirke Advocate which lie ran for some eight years, and then retired to Auckland where he died some seven years ago. Dim'll" the twelve years she was oil ihe Coart. Mrs Curie by many unobtrusive acts of Mildness ami charity endeared herself to a lan.ro number, being an earnest though not prnitiineiit worker in eotfneotion with the l’l'eshytcrian Church. She was a sister of the laic .Mr Samuel Stone, who was stationed lor some years at Kiiinaia i*i loiineetiou with the Wesleyan Pliureh, ami whose kimllv nature "Mill’d lor him many lastiii" I rieildships

am,ni"st the Coasters. Mrs Curie was huried on Wednesday la-t In the Waikaraka cemetery. Aueklaud. where her hushaml and lirothei had heell al-o laid to lest. She is survived hy her soil, four "l'amh-liild-reii. and turn "real "randeliild.