HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
MRS M. A. HART, OF RICHMOND. A USEFUL OLD AGE. (Per Press Associate NELSON, This Day. In good health and spirits, except for failing sight, Mrs Mary Ann Hart, of Richmond, to-day celebrates the hundredth anniversary of her birth. As a girl of 13, daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Hammond, Mrs Hart first stepped ashore in New Zealand at Auckland from the barque Lord "William Bentinek, and with her family came on to Nelson five months later, settling at Richmond, where Mrs Hart has lived for 87, years, passing through all the hardships of the early pioneers. Mrs Hart has had a happy, useful old age, and with the gradual narrowing of her activities, has devoted herself in her spare time to rag matmaking in aid of Baptist Missions, and in this way has contributed £258. Her husband, Mr William Hart, died some 12 years ago. Mrs Hart, to-day is the recipient of many congratulations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 22, 5 November 1938, Page 6
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159HUNDRED YEARS OLD. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 22, 5 November 1938, Page 6
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