OBITUARY

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20507, 25 May 1938, Page 8

OBITUARY

MR L. M. CARNACHAN A Maori war veteran, Lauderdale Maule Carnachan, who took part in many of the now historic engagements of the Waikato and Taranaki campaigns, died in the Waikato Hospital yesterday in his 80th year. Mr Carnachan was born at Cambridge, of Scottish parents, and it was in that town that he received his education and spent the early part of his life. As a young man, he joined the militia at Cambridge, but was later transferred to serve with the regular forces in the Taranaki campaign. He was a member of the party which arrested Te Whete, the Maori prophet, and later assisted in the capture of the Maori responsible for the White Cliffs massacre.

Before taking up farming in the Opotiki district, Mr Carnachan was a member of the Mounted Constabulary at Pirongia, serving under Major von Tempsky. Farming did not hold his attention for long, and he left Opotiki to participate in the gold-rushes at the Martha and Glut ha mines at Waihi. Later he visited Australia in a dash to the Ballarat goldfields, but there fortune did not favour him and he returned to New Zealand, entering the service of the Public Works Department as a surveyor at Kawhia. When work there, was completed, he acquired a farm at Kawhia where he lived until his last illness. He was an enthusiastic Rugby player and was a member of one of tne earliest Waikato representative teams, while be was also well-known as an accomplished Maori linguist. He was married at Kawhia in 1908 and is survived bv one son and three daughters. His wife pre-deceased him by