James Miller farewelled

Governor’s Bay, Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury, a favourite holiday resort and popular pedestrian...
Governor’s Bay, Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury, a favourite holiday resort and popular pedestrian rendezvous for the Christchurch town-dweller bent on healthy exercise and a breath of the ozone. — Otago Witness, 2.1.1918.
Yesterday Mr James Miller, who has so long and so ably filled the position of clerk of the court in Dunedin, completed his duties here.

After the rising of the court Mr Miller was met by the leading social workers of the city in the magistrate’s room, Mr H. A. Young, S. M., presiding.

The Rev. E. A. Axelsen, on behalf of the Presbyterian Social Service Association thanked Mr Miller for all the assistance he had given during the years they had been working together. There had never been an officer of the court so closely associated with the social workers for so many years. They had ceased to look upon him as an official and come to regard him as a fellow worker.

Pioneer miner diesMr John Gare, a notable figure in Tuapeka pioneer mining circles during the last 54 years, died suddenly at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr John Tippett, Waipori, on Wednesday, aged 79 years. Deceased arrived from Australia shortly after the Gabriel’s Gully rush, and devoted himself to mining pursuits in the Wetherstone goldfield, where he impressed those round him as a skilful and resourceful miner. He removed some 35 years ago to the Waipori district to assist in sinking the old ‘‘Victory’’ shaft, then managed the Nuggetty Gully reef, and after some time spent in various alluvial mining ventures, opened up and worked the Bella reef, of which he was one of the original discoverers. Latterly he spent a semi-retired life with his family of six sons and one daughter. With the exception of the only eligible one, Samuel Gare, now in France, his sons have followed gold mining. Mr Gare has been an invalid for the past eight years. His wife predeceased him by 26 years.

Cattle exchangeSome of the Holstein cattle which the New Zealand Government is exchanging for Red Polls from the Victorian State herd have already left New Zealand. The total number to be sent from the State farm at Wereroa is 16, and it is expected that the same number of Red Polls will be returned home. The basis of the exchange is to be milk production.

Tuapeka Mouth churchA Roman Catholic church is being built at Tuapeka Mouth, and it is expected that it will be completed to allow for the opening ceremony in two months’ time. Father Lynch, of Lawrence parish, who administers to the spiritual wants of his flock in the Tuapeka district, is to be congratulated on his enterprise, as are also the members of this particular part of his parish in their effort to have the church opened free of debt. — ODT, 5.1.1918.

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