OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 3 August 1911, Page 1455

OBITUARY

MR. P. D. O’CONNOR,- TE AWAMUTU. The remains of the late Patrick Daniel O’Connor (writes our Auckland correspondent) were interred in the Waikaraka cemetery, Onehunga, Very Rev. Father Mahoney officiating. The four brothers of the deceased acted at pall-bearers. Many residents of Te Awamutu and surrounding districts, including Rev. Father Tormey, at one time in charge of this parish, were present to pay their last tribute to the memory of one whose death has caused a gap that will be hard to fill. The late Mr. O’Connor arrived in Dunedin from Ireland in 1868, leaving immediately for the West Coast goldfields, where he followed mining for two or three years, when he, with his brother John, left for Gulgong, N.S.W. The two brothers were inseparable right up to the time of John’s death a few months ago From Gulgong they went to the Palmer River rush in Queensland. There they took up big contracts on the Queensland Downs water-finding and dam-building. With the introduction of artesian boring, but probably more on account of failing health, the O’Connor brothers returned to New Zealand in 1£92, and settled in To AwamutuE. I, P,