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OBITUARY.
MR. WILLIAM GILLIES.
A correspondent of the "Advertiser" I writes: - At. tho Taliura Memorial
Hospital on the ilrst day of 1926 Mr. ;
William Gillies, a very old resident of j the 'l'atlara district, passed to tho1 great beyond, iMr. Gillies was tho ho- j cond Hon ol' Mr. J. Gillies, an early j
settler oi' Ttatrce Gully, from which
district ho migrated when but two j
years of age, travelling by bullock dray In short stages and landing In Mount Gambler 81 years ago. Mr. Gillies' early recollections dated back to Mount Gambler when tho township was no thing but scrub and a few log shunties. Mr. Gillies followed bush pursuits, and it la doubtful if a better bush carpen ter, woodsman, road maker, and blade shearer was ever known in the South - Bast. It could truly bo said that Mr. Gillies helped to blazo tho trail us far an tho South-Eastern districts are concorned, some of the first hewn sleepers that carried tho railway being cut by his hunds. There aro many wool sheds, wells, and buildings throughout the Tatiara district that are standing as monuments to his bushcraft, The last work accomplish ed by htm wus a pair of cart wheels mado not more than a month ago. whicli would have rtono credit to a young craftsman. An old Injury as serted itsolf a few1 days ago and Mr. Gillies sank at tho ngc of 83. The family consisted of Mr. Robert Gillies. 'Mundalltu Messrs. Jim and Jack Gillies of Bordortown, Mr. William Gillies and Frank Gillies, of Narracoorte, and Mrs. 0. IHlller, of Klcth. There are 21 grandchildren and S3 great-grandchil dren, Four grandsons went to the
Great War nnd two made the supreme
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