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OBITUARY. ROBERT AHERNE.
Mr Robert Aherne, whose death at the age of seventy-four years, occurred yesterday, was a well known personality in North Canterbury in the early days of the province. He came out to New Zealand in the sixties, and for a short time was employed as a stockman in the Oxford district. He afterwards secured a position as assistant in a general store at Rangiora, and subsequently was engaged as a coach driver on one of the mail routes in the north of the province. Later he became clerk to the Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board, a position which he held for several years, when he relinquished it to become chief North Canterbury agent and correspondent for the "Lyttelton Times" Company, being resident first at Rangiora and afterwards at Kaiapoi. Subsequently he was engaged on the literary staff of the " Lyttelton Times " for some years, and subsequently he was engaged in journalism in Wellington, the West Coast and other places. While resident in Rangiora, the late Mr Aherne was a prominent member of the Masonic Lodge, and was also secretary of the Rangiora Oddfellows' Lodge and a Provincial Grandmaster of the Ashley District Oddfellows Lodge.
OBITUARY.
LYTTELTON TIMES, VOLUME CXVII, ISSUE 18280, 16 DECEMBER 1919