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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1929, Page 6

Mr John Francis Falvey, who died last Thursday at Auckland was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry in New Zealand. He spent his childhood days in Ross, Westland. His parents arrived from Melbourne in 1866, and his father was the first to acquaint the Warden of Jones’s discovery of payable gold in Jones Flalt and Jones Creek, Ross. Mr Falvey toured the Dominion with a small picture plant before the coming of regular picture theatres. He was the first electrician to instal electric light in Christchurch, where he resided for twenty years. For many years he was employed in the telephone department in the city. He was in London when the war first started, and, joining up with the colonial forces, he served throughout the war. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family in Wellington, also an only brother, Mr 1). Falvey, of Christchurch.