THE LATE J. W. HENWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1918, Page 7

THE LATE J. W. HENWOOD.

On Friday last, the 11th inst., the mortal remains of the late Mr. J. W. Hen wood were laid to rest in the Inglewood Cemetery. The large gathering at the graveside gave ample, testimouy to the esteem in which held by his fellow-settlers. Members of the Moa Road Board, of which body MrHemvood was a member at the time of his death, were the bearers, and the service was conducted by the Rev. Harvie, the vicar of Inglewood.

• The late Mr. I-lenwood. who was born in Cornwall, England, came to Taranaki in his early years, and,_ on the opening o: the Thames goldfields joined the for-.tune-seekers who thronged thither, and while there so strenuous was the life he led that it left its traces cn his health, from which he never completely was free. Though not one of the earliest settlers in the Moa district, he was connected with it before settlement propel began, for in 1574 he, with two others, had a contract for felling and clearing some 70 odd 'chains of the Mountain Road southward from the Mangamawhiti stream to the present site of Tariki, while at the same time the Mather brothers continued the work to the Wairjiku c treara. thus connecting North and South Taranaki through the then virgin tush eastward of Mt. Egmont.

For several years Mr. Henwood, in bin own quiet way, was a person to be reckoned with ,in any matter of public importance going on in tho Inglewood district, and took a keen interest in any movement that tended to forward the welfare of the small farmer, and willingly gave his time to help things onward. For years he was chairman of the Waiongona School Committee,; was one of the supporters of the Waiongona Dairy , Company, a busy, business-like member of the Moa Road Board, alwayi: watchful of tho interests of the bock settlers, a promoter of the Moa Farmers' Union, and, generally speaking, one whose departure from the activities of the district will be distinctly felt. He bad of late given r,p active par tieipation in farming life, though by 110 means his interest in what wan going on aioimd lis homo. He hid reached the ago of 7i> years, and leavs behind him a widow and grown-up family of five song and seven daughters, to whom th< sympathy of their fellow-settlers in their bereavement is heartily extended. —Contributed.