OBITUARY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5444, 5 July 1929, Page 2

OBITUARY.

© MR. HENRY M. CHALTON. There passed away at his residence, Thames, on Sunday last, a very old resident of Thames and district in the person of Air Henry Mangrave Chalton, in his seventy-eighth” year. The late Mr Chaiton was born at Chester, England, on September 29, 1850, and dame out to the Dominion in the ship Bluejacket, arriving at Auckland on St. Patrick’s Day, 1860, and settled at Kawaka with his father and brothers on the Grange farm, whi-h they worked for 10 years. When the Thames goldfield was proclaimed the family went to Thames and Mr Chalton, senr., built ~the first Queen’s Hotel, and later, with the late Mr Charles Gale, took over a mining battery in the Karaka. The family then went to Netherton, being the first settlers in that district. Mr Samuel Chaiton named it Netherton, after his old farmhouse near Chester City, called Netherton Hall. Mr Henry Chalton took a contract for cutting and hauling the kahikatea bush to the Thames River for Pond’s Mill, Auckland, and Bagnall’s Mill at Turua, and Gibbons’ Mill at Kopu. The outlook for farming not being bright (butter being 6d and 9d per lb after, rowing it down to Thames)., he then removed to Paeroa and later to Karangahake, where he took up battery work and mining in the Woodstock and Talisman mines. About 26 years ago he took up land at Komata, and 12 years later returned to Thames, where he resided for the last 15 years. He married in 1892 the eldest daughter of the late Mr James Coutts, mining inspector at Thames, and is survived by his widow, four sons, and two daugh teis, all married. The sons are Harold and Basil, Thames, and Roy and Reginald, Rangiriri; and the di ughter i Mrs G. Gibson, Thames, and Mrs H. Donkin, Rangiriri.