LADY OF RANK.
DEATH OF MRS. JANE BRO**-
SIR MAUI POMARE'S AUNT-
The late Mrs. Jane Brown (He'" Ran), of Remuera, and formerly Kohimarama, was a very aged «■* widely known among the nativei peop she being a lady of high rank. the daughter of a respected P lOl John Nicholls, of Taranaki, and » o-Te Rangi a chieftainess of tliei ° gH mutunga tribe of that province. was also closely related in the noted chief Rauparaha, bein o bably the last surviving_ person* not onlv remembered tnai D jnC] . personally, but could recall eaij [( , dents of* his life, for she had a memory of the past. She wm» =, a friend of Sir George W e J> » r young woman, she and her "J ger Visited South Africa as his sister died at the Cape. * uls ' rs ago, husband predeceased her some j. Mrs. Brown's eldest sistei mother of Sir Main Vomve.J-* ment took place at New Ply» otttn,
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 305, 26 December 1929, Page 8
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