OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1923, Page 7

OBITUARY.

MRS. H. T. GARRATT. Last week saw (lip severance of another of the links with the early days, when Mrs. Elizabeth Sissone Garratt, widow of the late Henry Thomas Garratt, passed away at her residence, 24, East Street. Xewton, at the age of 78 years. Mrs. Garratt arrived with her husband and daughter in the ship "Electric , ' on January 22. 1567, after an eventful voyage of 114 days from Lon- | don. It was her experience to be actively concerned in the running of the first .Aiickland-Mt. Albert bus which made one trip each way daily, and waa one of the few in these later days who remembered Queen Street with a ditch crossed by planks and Ivarangahape Road as a track. The Ancient Order of Foresters owes much to her personal connection with the work in the days when Mr. Garratt was district secretary, and she was the first Chief Ranger of the. Ladies' Court Chisman (later called "Maid Marion") constituted on June 25, ISO 4. Many who knew her but casually will remember her personal charm enhanced by her white Victorian curls, but, those who knew her more intimately loved her for her true nobility of womanhood, her unfailing hospitality, fidelity to Christian principle, cheerfulness in adversity and keen interest in affairs in general, all of which characteristics were retained to the day of her death. Of her family of thirteen she is survived by four sons and two daughters, Messrs. John S., Henry T., and Charles F. Garratt, of Auckland, Kershaw B. Garratt, of Melbourne. Jliss Lillie S. j Garratt. and Mrs. Will Saunders, of! Auckland.