The Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 February 1917
(Prescott, Arizona)

PERSONAL ITEMS
The death took place at Leeston, Canterbury, last week, of Mr James Snell, an old identity, at the ripe age of 88 years. The late Mr Snell was born at Tredavale, Cornwall, in 1829, and reached the Dominion in the ship Waipua in January, 1877, and settled at Leeston, where he has remained ever since. A family of seven sons and daughters is left to mourn their loss, as follows:—Messrs S. H. Snell (Palmerston North), J. Snell (Masterton), W. Snell (Dannevirke), Mrs J. W. Maddren (Hikurangi), Mrs. J. W. Cork and Mrs S. Wilson (Christchurch), and Miss Snell (Leeston).

Contributed by Bob Bolitho