PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Arthur Dee, who has died suddenly at Ashburton, was a member of the contingent that went from Ashburton to meet the Maori threat under Te Whiti at Parihaka. One of his sons, Captain Keith Dee, was killed in the late war.

Cable advice was received yesterday by the New Zealand Shipping Company of the death of Mr. William Charles Dawes, who, up to a few months ago, was chairman of the London board of directors of the company (says a Press Association message from Christchurch). Mr. Dawes was also a director of the Commercial Union Assurance Co., and besides his interests in shipping, was interested in coal mining .on the West Coast of the South Island. He visited New Zealand a year or two before the outbreak of war.

Another of that fast-disappeariag band of colonial volunteers who did so much during the struggle between the pakeha and Maori in the 'sixties has passed to his long rest—namely, Veteran George Tuffin, who died at Wanganui on Saturday, in his 84th year. The death of Veteran Cosslet Johnston recently left, so far as is known, only twj survivors of 'furuturu-Mokoi—J. G. Beamish (Patca), and G. Tuffin, both of whom were seriously wounded on tint memorable night of July 12, 1868,, when a determined attack was made on the redoubt by the Maoris; and had it not been for the pluck and endurance of the handful of men in charge, there is little doubt but that the whole of the garrison would have fallen. As it was, about, a dozen were killed, including the officer in charge (Captain Ross). The temper of the Maoris was manifested in the manner in which they treated some -if the dead—Captain Ross and a man named Lennon had their hearts cut out, but the former's was recovered near where the body lay; the latter's, however, was taken away for a well-known purpose. The late Veteran George Tuffin was the son of highly-respected # New Plymouth settlers, who were obliged to abandon their farm at Omata at the outbreak of the war.—Star.