OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 8

OBITUARY.

MRS. G. J. BOSWORTH. At the great age of 90 years, Mrs. G. J. Bos worth died on January 15 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. Wilson, Kesteven Avenue, St. Helier's Bay. Born at Parramatta, sho came to Auckland in 1872 in the mail steamer Nevada, which was propelled by beam engines. As a child Mrs. Bosworth lived at Breebong,

about 300 miles from Sydney, when bush, rangers were carrying on operations, and the blacks caused a lot of trouble to white settlers. It was after her marriage that Mrs. Boswortli came to Auckland to live on the Surrey Hills Estate, which is now known as Grey Lynn. At that time Karangahape Road was little better than a track through tea-tree scrub, and had few shops in it. Communication with Queen Street was by means of a two-horse bus, the fare being 1/ each trip. It was some compensation for high fares that, a house, could then be rented in Arch Hill for 7/6 per week. Mrs. Boswortli was one of the oldest members of the Baptist Taberna.cle, and before it was built worshipped at the chapel at the corner of Wellesley Street and Chapel Street. Deceased is survived by the following children. Mesdames A. Wilson and Douglas, of St. Helier's Bay, S. Kerr, of Otorohanga, and Major J*. T. Bosworth, of Palmerston North,