DEATH OF MR. JOHN STOUPE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 297, 7 March 1928, Page 16

DEATH OF MR. JOHN STOUPE

EX-MAYOR OF ONEHUNGA The death occurred on Sunday of Mr. John Stoupe, for 30 years a member of the Oriehunga Borough Council, and Mayor in 1918. i The late Mr. Stoupe was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1853. He commenced life as a joiner in Caird’s shipyards, Greenock, and on the expiration of his apprenticeship, emigrated to Canterbury in the ship Piako in 1879. He came to Auckland in 1882, and for some years was a builder. He ultimately joined up with William Sutherland and Company, tanners, of Onehunga, of which business he has been manager for the past 30 years. The late Mr. Stoupe was a member of the Onehunga Borough Council for 30 years, and held the office of Mayor in the year of the great epidemic. During that trying period Mr. Stoupe’s services to the community were little short of heroic. He was one of the first to welcome the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and remained for upwards of 40 years a staunch member of that body. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1904. He is survived by a widow, four sons and two daughters. The funeral took place yesterday in the Waikaraka cemetery, Onehunga.