OBITUARY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR JAMES CANDY. The news of the death at the Masterton Hospital yesterday of Mr James Candy, of Cambridge Terrace, almost within two weeks of his last public appearance in the Masterton Opera House as the conductor of the Orchestral Society’s excellent concert programme, will prove a considerable shock not only to his many personal friends in all parts of the Wairarapa district, but to those living elsewhere in the Dominion. Born in Portsmouth, England, nearly seventy years ago, the late Mr Candy, as a youth of 14, enlisted as a juvenile member of the Band of the South Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot (2nd Battalion), in which he served for over *• six years, including four years in South Africa and Singapore. Mr Candy then came to New Zealand to see his widowed mother and his only brother, Mr William Candy, of Lincoln Road, Masterton, and had remained in New Zealand ever since. He married Miss Wrigley, a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs James Wrigley, pioneer settlers of Masterton. Mr Candy was always willing to advance the interests of Masterton ahead of his own. It was said of him that he never made an enemy or lost a friend. Last year he was publiclyhonoured in musical circles by the presentation to him of an inscribed baton, at the conclusion of the Orchestral Society’s last programme of the season. Mr Candy’s signal services to Masterton in this and other directions will long remain a treasured memory of its citizens. His leading association with the former Volunteer and Fire Brigade Bands in years past, when any town, however small, was considered of small account without such social aids, will long be remembered. In this and many other directions (particularly in horticultural circles) the late Mr Candy was an enthusiast and in any activitiy for the town’s advancement he was a whole-hearted supporter. Citizens of Masterton will extend to the relations their deepest sympathy in their great loss. Mr Candy is survived by one daughter, Mrs J. M. Scott, of Tutira, Hawke's Bay, and four sons. Dr Eric Candy, of Rakaia, Canterbury, Messrs John Candy, of Ohau, and F. H. and Henry Candy, of Masterton. The funeral will take place tomorrow, leaving the residence, 41 Cambridge Terrace, at 2 p.m. for the Masterton Cemetery.