EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS HERE.
MRS. VV. HOVLK BROWN". IP A lady at Devonport. Mrs. W. Hoyle !" Brown. ' celebrates ber eighty-fourth '" birthday on February ."i. She is probably '" one of the oldest v. bile women born in • v lXew Zealand, and is well-known in "".Dunedin. Port Chalmers, and this city. "-'' She was born at Tauranga in IS-11. her ""■parents! being timo'igsl I In? original ts ! settlers in the Hull Valley, near Wel- "'' lingtoii. Soon after arriving they were washed out by heavy Hoods, and some of the settlers went to the site of the present city of Wellington. Mrs. Brown's parents were landed at Tauranga by a . sloop of war that eliai-oei] to call' at N Wellington. At that ' ime no other Kuro- , pea us lived near them. The baby wa.--'v' conveyed in a whaleboat to Hick's Bay -.' to be christened nnd have her birth duly registered. Mrs. Brown's many friend; will be pleased to learn that she. is slil ' enjoying the best of health.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1925, Page 7
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163EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS HERE. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1925, Page 7
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