PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9569, 16 August 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Another of the small band of early •pioneers passed away on Friday last at Palmerston North in the person of Mrs Charlotte Davis, as ed 76.- The deceased, who came out in the ship Cameo, had resided in New Zealand for fifty years. She leaves a husband Mr W. Nathaniel Davis, and, a family of six (including Mrs Tory, of Timaru, and Mr George Davis, of j ■ Johnsonville), Mr Samuel Brown, who has been identified with the public life of Wellington, and, indeed, of New Zealand, for many years, died at Wellington at 1.15 on Saturday morning. For some time past he had been suffering from an internal trouble, but his end was unexpected. Deceased, who was G4 years of age, was a native of Ireland, and came to New Zealand in 1862. After a couple of years atlnvercargill he came to Wellington and started the -Tvood and coal business, which at the present day, under the title of Messrs S. Brown and Sons, Ltd., is one ot the biggest private enterprises of its kind in New Zealand. In addition to the various businesses with which 'he was associated. Mr Brown always took a keen interest in public affairs. He filled the high position of Mayor of the city in 1887 and 1888, and was one of the promoters and first president of the Wellington Industrial Association, and subsequently the first president of the I New Zealand Industrial Association. As president of the Wellington Industrial Association he took a prominent part in connection with the Wellington Industrial Exhibition of 1896. For the past eight ur nine years, Mr Brown •was the employers' representative on the Arbitration Court. He was a prominent member of the Masonic Order, and o.ie of the oldest memibers of the Wellington Bowling Club. He leaves a widow and a family, consisting of Messrs Stanley £■'■' S. Brown, W. R. Brown, A. E. Brown, and 3. A. S. Brown, and •one daughter, Mrs O'Shea, wife of .'Mr J. O'Shea, city solicitor.