Obituary

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 13

Obituary

MR. WILLIAM STEEN Mr. William Steen, of Papakura, died yesterday morning at the Auckland Hospital at the age of 7G. Mr. Steen was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and •ame to New Zealand in the ship Baron Aberdare in March. 1875. He worked on the land for some time at Pukekoho West, later being employed in storekeeping at Pukekohe. lie remained there for several years, and was for a time a member of the Pukekohe West Road Board. Later he was nt Matamuta. Sine© retiring lt> years :i ?o, he lived at Drury and Papakura. He is survived by a widow, three sons, and three daughters. There are 25 grandchildren and two great-grand-children.

MRS. E. J. HUNTER-BROWN The death Is reported from Nelson t Mrs. K. J. liunter-Brown, in her *9th year. Deceased was born in 1840 >nd came to New Zealand at the age 10 in the ship Sir Edward Paget, arriving at Auckland on December 18. IWO. Her father went to Melbourne to practise his profession of barrister, leaving his family in the cure of his cousin, Archdeacon Abraham, who afterwards became the first Bishop of Wellington. She married Mr. Charles Hunter-Brown, a Canterbury runholder, in IS6I and after living in Auckland and Hawke’s Bay went to Nelson in 18CC. Mrs. Hunter-Brown l °ok the keenest interest in all Church *’ or k particularly in missionary activities. When the New Zealand Church Missionary Society was funded in Nelson in 1892 she was one of the members of the executive.

MR. G. B. CHRISTIE Pr jss Association WELLINGTON. To-day. The death of Mr. George B. Christie ” e i lin Bton manager of the New ZealQu Express Company for tlie past ‘urs, is reported from Wellington we leaves a wife and daughter.