OBITUARY

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1933, Page 4

OBITUARY

101 YEARS OLD

The death occurred at ; the -Grey (River Hospital yesterday of the West Coist’s oldest resident; .i n the person of Mr Thomas Brown, a native of Denmark j aged --: 101' years.-c He came to, New Zealand over 60:;-years agGr after having spent a number of years at sea, aild took lip go’dmining on the West Co’fit. With a mate, Alexander Laird, who predeceased, him 32 years ago, he \jjprked in the Marsden. Welshman’s, No- Name, and Butherglen districts. He was the oldest West Coast member of the Forresters’ L°dgo, having been -a member : for, the paiy fifty years. For the past eleyen years he had been -an, inmate of the Old People’s Home, where on the occasion 'of his last birthday, the Hospital Board entertained him at a, party. Ho. had no relatives in .Now .-Zealand, ...

The death at the Reef ton Hospital, after a short illness, , occurred on. Monday of Mrs Margaret, A, Davidson, wife of William Davidson, who was •for many years on the staff of the Millerton mine.- Deceased was a native of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and aged 76. She is survived by her husband, eight daughters, one eon, thirtyfour grand-children, and twelve greatgrandchildren.

The death occurred on Saturday at Nelson, of Eliza, wife of W. Deer, Stoke, aged 42 years, -after a long illness. Besides her husband, sh e leaves three young children ; also three sis' ters, Mesdames J. Stephens (Nelson), J. Beardsley (Te ;Kinga), and G. Douglas (Gona n Bridge); four brothers Messrs R. Davidson (Hokitika), Andrew (Christchurch), William (Petone), and David (Te Kuiti),

'lady CYNTHIA MOSLEY

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(Received May 17 at 10 a.m.)

LONDON, May 16

'The death has (occurred of Lady Cynthia - Mosley, in the presence of her husband and relatives, following o, peritonitis on ) ution on May 9 after acute appendictis.