DEATH OF MR S. J. MORRIS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 258, 22 December 1914, Page 2

DEATH OF MR S. J. MORRIS.

It is with very grrat regret that we have to record the death of Mr Sidney Jolifffl Morris, the manager ot the New Zealand Dairy Association's Pukekohe factory. The deceased gentleman, who waa 53 years of age, developed pneumonia on Sunday of last week, but fatal results were not at first anticipated. However, he gradually got weaker and passed away in the early hours of Sunday last at hia residence in Pukekohe.

Born in the Isle of Wight, England, in 1861, the late Mr Morris, after attending a local fchool in the Isle of Wight, completed his education at Hurst College, Essex. At the age of 19 be came out with his parents to New Zealand and first resided in Temuka, where he took up farming work. In 1885 be moved to Taranaki and shortly afterwards was appointed manager of the Inglewood factory, one of the first dairy factories established in the Dominion. Subsequently he was appointed to the charge of the Eltham factory, and his ability as a butter-maktr was ably demonstrated when at the Winter Exhibition at Dunedin the Eltham factory won the first prize for butter. Some 25 years since he came to I'ukek.ihe, the dairy business in this locality then being in a very backward state. Mr Morris, however, made the most of his opportunities and largely under his skilful guidance the industry grew, with the result that the output of the Fukekohe factory is now greater in a month than it wss in a year at the time of Mr Morris's advent. Whilst at Eltham Mr Morris married Miss Ackroid, of Temuka, hy whom he is survived, as also by three sons and live daughters. Genial in disposition, Mr Morris was held in the highest esteem by all with whom he came in contact.. He was a regular and devout churchgoer, and besides having been for many years churchwarden and vestryman of St. Andrew's Church be was treasurer of the Central Vestry. The funeral takes place this afternoon in the Pukekohe cemetery. At a meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council, held last evening, a vote of sympathy was passed with Mrs Morris and family in the great loss they had sustained, the Mayor in proposing the resolution remarking that Mr Morris had been one of the most prominent and rfspected citizens of the town.