OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 169, 18 July 1924, Page 8

OBITUARY.

NEARLY CENTENARIAN. In her ninety-sixth year Mrs. Jessie C. Herbert passed away yesterday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. V. Allen, Tenterden Avenue, Mount Eden. Born at Lerwick, Shetland Isles, in 1829—eight years before the late Queen Victoria ascended the Throne—she emigrated to New Zealand with her husband in 18(55, coming out in the ship Besolute. The following year they went up to Hokianga, which in those days was in a very primitive state, and the countryside was full of Maoris. Mr. Herbert, was well known for years on the river as a storekeeper and farmer, and there was not a more hospitable couple in the district. Mrs. Herbert, who, though a "little body," ac they say in her parts of the world, was a most resolute and fearless woman, and gave an instance of this during the threatened rebellion among the natives at Waima, Hokianga, some twenty-five years ago. When it looked as though there was certain to be trouble the women and children at Rawene were removed, but Mrs. Herbert absolutely refused to stir from her home, and tbere she stayed. Mr. Herbert died in 1917, and, since then Mrs. Herbert had been living with her daughter in Auckland. She retained her faculties right up to the end, and also kept up her interest in current events. She should read tho "Star" without glasses up to within three weeks of her death. She leaves, in addition to her daughter, three sons, Messrs. James Herbert, John Herbert and Joseph Herbert, all of Hokianga.