107 YEARS OLD
THE OLDEST INHABITANT. WOMAN DIES AT BLENHEIM. LINK WITH WAIRAU MASSACRE. (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM. This Day. Mrs Elizabeth Bore, reported to .be 107 years of age, and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand, is dead. She was a daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling brig Caroline, which frequented Cloudy Bay during the heyday of the whale fisheries from 1821 until 1840. Captain Blenkinsopp married a Maori woman, daughter of a local chieftain, and purchased from Te Rauparapa the whole Wairau plain, the price being a'spiked cannon, which is still preserved, in Blenheim. Te Rauparaha repudiated the bargain, and the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau Massacre of 1843, which was the beginning of the wars between Maori and Pajaeha. Despite her great age, Mrs Rore retained her faculties until recently. She met with an accident, in which she sustained a broken leg, and since then she has been in the Wairau Hospital. Mr Alfred Rore, a well-known horseowner and trainer, is her son.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 143, 29 March 1930, Page 5
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170107 YEARS OLD Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 143, 29 March 1930, Page 5
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