PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1940, Page 4

PERSONAL

At Wellington on Saturday the death occurred of Mr Arthur Kendrick Muir, of Western Lake, Featherston, at the age of 56 years. The death occurred at Konini on Saturday of Mr Thomas Avery, a wellknown settler, at the age of 81 years. The funeral will take place tomorrow at 1.30 p.m., leaving his late residence at Konini for the Pahiatua cemetery. The death occurred suddenly in Onga Onga, Central Hawke’s Bay, on Saturday of Mr Lawrence Wilfred Simpson, aged 44. Mr Simpson, who saw considerable service in the last war was a successful business man and repreented Waipawa County on the Central Hawke’s Bay Power Board. He is survived by a widow, two daughters and three sons.

Word was received in Masterton today of the death of Mr David D. Hutton, of Gisborne, who for many years was Police Inspector at Gisborne. Mr Hutton had for over 40 years served in the New Zealand police force and was in his younger days a well known detective. He was in charge of a squad of mounted police at the capture of Rua, the Maori outlaw. Mr Hutton, who was 79 years of age, was a stepbrother to Mr Robert Russell, of Masterton.

By the death of Mr William R. Gordon, Dunedin has lost one of its oldest and best-known business men. Educated at Otago Boys’ High School, Mr Gordon went straight into the employ of Neill and Co., merchants, with whom he was associated right up to the time of his death. For many years he represented the firm on the road, subsequently becoming manager and later a director. Mr Gordon never married. One bother, Dr Gordon, resides in Riverton, and the other, Mr John Gordon, in Wellington.

The thirty-fourth anniversary of the death of the great Liberal leader in New Zealand politics, Richard John Seddon, falls today. Mr Seddon was a member of Parliament for 27 years and Prime Minister for 13 years. During his term of office he instituted many social reforms that have become a part of the national life of the Dominion Mr Seddon entered Parliament on September 24, 1879, as member for Hokitika in the seventh Parliament. He represented that district as the Kumara electorate in the eighth, ninth, and tenth Parliaments, and as Westland from the eleventh to the sixteenth Parliament. He became a Minister of the Crown under the Ballance Administration in 1891 and formed his own Ministry in 1893, being Prime Minister from May 1, 1893, till his death on June 10, 1906.