OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 254, 6 April 1915, Page 3

OBITUARY.

CAPTAIN STANLEY GINGER. Captain AVillinm Stanley Ginger, who died on Thursday at Manutahi, was born in Monmouthshire, England", on March 4,_ 184"2. He landed at New Plymouth, ■with Lis parents, four sisters and two brothers, 011 the Joseph Fletcher, in October, 1852. His father bought land at Tataraimaka, thirteen miles south of New Plymouth. Shortly afterwards the trouble with the natives of Waitara began, and the then Governor, C'olone. Gore Browne, advised the settlers to come into New Plymouth, hut told t'.iem to leave things just as lliev were, as tliey would be back within •> w-">V Though not believing in the wi.;dom of this advice, the lack of transport in those days gave many: of tile settlers ihi choice, arid Mr. Ginger's famil" never losing their house unu its con tents, stock and crop just harvested. The deceased joined'the T.li.V/s, aiu. was engaged in the fighting at'YVaireka. IWa'joetahi, and practically in all tlx, engagements in North Taranaki in which volunteers took part. Afterwards, as sergeant in .Major Atkinson's Bu'shrangers, which did such good work dn relieving the pressure 011 the town of New Plymouth, he was offered a commissioii in the force leaving for the east coast, but declined, the position being filled by ilr. 11. W. Northcroft, now Commissioner at Rarotonga. Mr. Ginger arrived at l'atea on the survey party, under Messrs Smith and Williams, and at the time of his death was probably the oldest settler in the district. On the outbreak of Tit jkowaru's wru the three brothers settled on their land at Ivakaramea, now owned bv Mr. G. V. Pearce, and had built a house, wiieiv they were joined by their father and unmarried aunt, who came down from New Plymouth over practically 110 roads. The brothers continued fencing thci,r land during the fighting north of Hawera. After the British defeat at Te Ngiitu-o-te-Manu, the brothers, beins warned by a friendly liativ Whaia), retired to Kakaramea redoubt, joining the garrison (Patea Hangers), and three days later the Maoris 'bymt them out for the second time. Shortly afterwards the deceased en listed in the Veterans (late Captain ICells), stationed at Whareroa. anil was. esteemed by Captain ICells as one of his best canoe men in his many raids up.the Waitotara and Patea rivers. After • the war, which, although in. many a hot corner, deceased came through without a wound, Captain Ginger built once more 011 the old site, ttnd got married. However, war's claim was once more sounded, and 011 the occasion of the Te Whiti scare Mr, Ginger received a captain's commission, and was placed in charge of the Kakaramea volunteers.

Captain Ginger, wlio was universallv liked and respected, -was of a retiriii" nature, and took little part in local politics. He was, however, a man of deep reading and varied knowledge, and was a great lover and cultivator of flowers. A widow, one daughter (Mrs. Harold S. Lovell, of llawcra), three sisters (Miss Ginger, of Manutahi, Mrs. C. E. llawson, New Plymouth, and Mrs. Edward Wright, Wanganui), and _ one brother (Dr. Diston Ginger, Manutahi) are left to mourn the loss caused hy Mr. Ginger's death. The deceased was a member of the Hawera branch of the lloyal Veterans' Association. —Hawera Star.