OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1922, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MR. HARRY N. LIARDET. Private advice has been received of the death at Wellington yesterday morning of Mr. Harry Norman Liardet, general manager in New Zealand of the Ocean Insurance Company. He had been for some time in a precarious state of health owing to heart trouble, and his end was not unexpected. Mr. Liardet, who wae a son of Captain Liardet, for many years harbor master of Liverpool and fomerly of the East India Company, went to sea after leaving school and spent several years on vein »ele trading between U ver pool, Auatftlia. and India. About 1881 he took up sheepfarming in New South Wales and in 1883 came to New Zealand, acquiring a farm close to Stratford. In 1887 he went into business in that town ae an auctioneer, later selling out to Mr. Newton King. He was the first Mayor of Stratford, ako a member of the first Stratford County Council and of the Stratford Town Board. He took a keen interest in all local matters and in all sporte, being one of the first president® of the Stratford Racing Club. The volunteer movement had his -warm tuppert and he was captain of the Stratford Mounted Rifles. Some yeans ago he was appointed Wellington manager of the Ocean Accident Insurance Company for New Zealand. About April last he went Home at the invitation of the directors to attend the company’s jubilee celebrations. At that time he was much troubled with a weak heart and on his return a month or two ago his condition was wome, the disease ending fatally early yesterday morning. He leaves a widow and family of one son and two daughters, his eldest son, Lieutenant Ijeonard Liardet, having been killed in the war. f