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Category: Homepage FeaturedNovember 23, 2017

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Lauri Tapsell dips into Papers Past for stories on Mt Albert’s history

April 15, 1890 – New Zealand Herald

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. A. K. TAYLOR.

Scarcely had our citizens got over the shock of the sudden death of Mr. Locke, when we are called upon to record the still more sudden decease of a highly esteemed and respected pioneer colonist in the person of Mr. Allan Kerr Taylor, of Alberton, Mount Albert. Mr. Taylor was last evening, at half-past five, talking at his stable with his coachman, when he was suddenly seized with a fit of apoplexy, and died in a few minutes.

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