EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 7

EKETAHUNA

LATE MR D. CURRY FOUND UNCONSCIOUS TN PADDOCK. (“Times-Age” Special.) The death occurred on Monday morning of Mr Douglas Curry. He left the home of his aunt, Mrs G. T. Allen, where he lived, at 9.15 a.m .on Sunday to join some other committee members of the Cricket Club at the Domain. His bicycle was missing and it was thought he had gone by road. He did not return for lunch and it was presumed that lunch had been sent up to the ground. When he did not return for tea uneasiness was felt, and this turned to alarm when darkness fell and he still did not return, and no trace of his movements could be found. He was found the next morning in Mr Fred Olsen’s paddock quite near to the Domain. He had not suffered from exposure. Messrs Fred Olsen and J. H. Jewitt brought him on a stretcher to the former's farm home, and Dr Simmers was soon in attendance and the ambulance was summoned from Pahiatua, but Mr Curry died before he could be moved to hospital. An inquest was held on Tuesday morning at Pahiatua. Constable McCowan gave formal evidence of identification. The post mortem later in the day revealed the cause of death as an aneurism of the brain.

Mi- Curry was born nearly 18 years ago at Akaroa and was the youngest of a family of eight. He came to Eketahuna a year ago and joined the staff of the "Express" and in a year had taken charge of the making up of the paper. He also had aptitude for writing. He had a baritone voice of unusually fine quality. The many beautiful floral tributes in evidence at the funeral included those from the Cricket Club and his associates at the "Express.” At the graveside at Kelvin Grove cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, the Rev J. Hubbard. M.A. B.D. conducted the service. The pall-bearers were Messrs F. Robinson and H. Higginson (Cricket Club). Harold and Robert Steer and W. Morrison (Football Club), and Donald Anderson ("Express").