MR W.C. PRNDALL

Informrt on v.*as on f>rjtiir<bv of the death of Mr V>'.ihx>:c Chorsvro For, • !!. iv'no arrived in Canterbury in tl'.e l-'iird of fie four s!:i;>s v.-;iirh "b!T,ii"ht (vifc t'-.e pilsriins in Vo* ccr.-,ler. IV-30. Tic pentleir'an ins a fanner, nti'l pn.-'-ixl n very aftivo life, filliiir; a nunihor of \v.h\\c ponitions. For many years '!:e farming on the north iKinV. of th<» Kovvui, near to In the fourtli oT the C:>nterhury rettlenien'.s, a t< :nn to Mr'Fendall, at tho first Tintch. hc'.d on the farm of .Mr \V. F'.»n[',. of Fencialton, was tho winner of tho fir c t prize. As or.o in t!-o (-\r-)r Canterbury Jockey Club. ?.Ir F-.'ndall v.-.ns onn of th" five steward*; •who condiicfcrnl t!ie fir-t races held *!Uf!or the mrwos of tlie C'liib. As a p-ntlema-i rider lie too!: part in several of the and in sevornl privato J:\ tho rnror. of IS-35, in the Lidies' Purse, lie was the winner, and the stiko of ClO wa>: the first amount linncied over for a rrrr<ndKttind at R'Conrton. At ho wns ono of tho oMc.st J.P.s, oth] a member of t'.ie T/eons'.nj; Comir>is.« ; on. Vnr a timo ho. was n r'ember of tho Canterbury Provincial Council. On one occasion ho contested tho, Ashley scat for the of npnresonf-.ntives jVTr W. S. Moorhou'o, but was defrnted by vot-cs of tho non-residents of tho district. Ho Ti!i ono of tho first committee of tho North Canterbury A. and P. Association in l&f>6. He leaven four sons, ono of whom is the Ror. F. P. Fomla-H, vicar of Rangiora, apd three dau editors.