OBITUARY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 142, 18 February 1915, Page 4

OBITUARY.

CAPTAIN CHARLES BAIT. AN OLD TAIHAPE RESIDENT. 1 Captain Charles Balt, master marinjer, and a resident of Taihape for npj wards of fourteen years, died at his !residence in Main Street, yesterday 1 afternoon as the Pest Office clock tolled out. the In. uv of three. The Captain, a? be was usually called, was 71 years of age ai Jus death. The greater part of liis life had been spent as sea, and many were the interesting st Tits of (ho briny deep he could relate Ho left the sc-f'faring life and settled down as a “land-lubber” about ?1 years ago. He married at Foxton, and he wis the firs.- stalionmaster at the Foxton railway station on the complffiou of that lint. He also filled the position of guard cm that railway for some years. The Captain left Foxton ! tc take the position of wharfinger at I Wanganui and he left wharf work to go into hotel-keeping. His .first house was the Masonic, at Wanganui, which he conducted for three years. From thence he moved to a Taranaki hotel at Okaiawa. His next move was to Ittre Masonic Hotel at Pater, and when •he left there he made his way to this district, and made Taihape his home lup to his decease. He visited the Old 'Country twice from Taihape. on the second occasion Airs F>att accompanied n;i,r The deceased took no part in either local or general polities or, in fact, any form of public lift. He was noted for straight forwardness,his word being his bond on all occasions. He first found his way to New Zealand as the captain of an emigrant ship, and like many others, he saw the land was fair to look upon, and so he decided to make it his home. He leaves a widow, Mrs Elizabeth Batr, a son and a daughter to mourn his loss. The daughter is Mrs James Georgetti, ol Mangaw'eka, and the son is Mr Charles Batt, well-known in this district. The funeral is to take place at the Taihape cemetery cn Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.