THE DEATH OF MR THOMAS MACREADY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 22 June 1875, Page 2

THE DEATH OF MR THOMAS MACREADY.

It is with dceTj.reg.et, and we are sure the feeling will ,be scared jby evevy one in our city and throughouVttie province, that we have to pnnounce the demise of Mr Thomas. Macrcady, '.who ranked among the oldest of Auckland's most useful .and earnest citizens. The melancholy event happened yesterday ■ morning between four and five o'clock. The-deceased'had been ill for some few days previous, and the nature of:his .'complaint.did not leave much hope of his ultimate recovery. The deceased, in spite, of strict regimen and closely fo^owing the "directions of fcis -medical; advisers,, 'had I;during^the "later years of his life become abnormally corpulent. N either exercise such as he was.a Die to take, nor any "other treatment the deceased subjected himself to, , had the effect of reaching the causes which produced so large a piepond^rance^of flesh. MrMacready wiTbe greatly" missed in the^several public bodies of which he was a member, and at whf.ch. he seldom failed ,to,give his attendance.'-' H> waa everre* marked for his excellent good sense and h's shrewdness at' getting to the bottom of any. existing abuse. .> Had the,deceased lived longer, there is no doubt but that he would have been' elected' to the office of Mayor, which he would have filled to the satisfaction of the large body of citizens. „ ,);,- --j- - Mr Macready. wai.bo~in'in Stranraer, WigtonsHfe, Scotland. Ho came here in 1853, and was by trade a watchmaker and jeweller. He was a member of the original City Board, and has-been, with the exception of a,short time a representative ever s'nce._ He was repeatedly a member "in the" Provincial Council'for Ciiy West; but, at the time of'his decease, he represcntedilfewton,- and that district owes to him, .it, a great .measure, the removal of"the toll-barto-JfrchiJl.. In 1 the Provincial Council he was always for progress. One of the. most .useful measures he was largely the mep-is of getting passed was the Harbour Board Act, of which Board he was repeatedly a member, and he ever took an active part in all matters that came befbre them, more especially? the dry-dock question. He* was also named in the Act of the Assembly as one of the Improvement Commissioners. Mr Macready was also appointed* one of the Commissioners for the Provincial Council to get the Hospital and other public bui'dings erected, such -as the Lunatic Aslyjun. A 1 most the last act of his useful life was m attempt toT solve the vexed question of the slaughterhouse, which. he.proposed s should be erected on city property^ at Low and Motion's, creek., These are but a few of the various useful functions and offices,which the deceased so;ably .filled during his long career. His place will not be.easily supplied.-rN.Z.'Herald,;.