OBITUARY.
MR. WALTER ATKIN, JOURNALIST. By Telegraph—Press Association. Westport, Last Night. Mr. Walter Atkin, proprietor of the Westport News, died at 0.30 to-night, after an illness extending over six months. Deceased was a native of Cork, Ireland, and went to Melbourne in 1868, and subsequently came over to New Zealand, working on the West Coast Times, Hokitika, and later with others estab-lishing-the defunct Grey Valley Times. Later he worked in Ree'fton as manager of the Inangahua Herald, and then took over the Lydl Times, which he conducted until 1898. Then he purchased the Westport News. Deceased was twice married, his. second wife, predeceasing him by five weeks. He leaves, by his first marriage, a grown-up family of two sons and three daughters.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 5
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122OBITUARY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 5
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