From the New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21874, 9 August 1934, Page 14.

MR. ALFRED WEBB One of the pioneers of the Aratapu. and Te Kopuru districts, Mr. Alfred Webb, died at the residence of hiu sister, Mrs. Chadwick, at Aratapu on Wednesday. Mr. Webb, who was the last surviving son of the late Mr. Thomas Stirrup Webb, was 78 years of age. He came with the members of his family from Bilston, in Staffordshire, in the ship Gertrude, landing in New Zealand in 1863. They settled on their immigration grant at the foot of the Te Kopuru hill and were, associated with the development of the district. Since the deaths of his sister and hia brother, he had resided with his other sister, Mrs. Chadwick, who is now the only survivor of the family,