EIGHTY CANDLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 3

EIGHTY CANDLES.

UNIQUE BIRTHDAY CAKE,

GRANDSON BORN SAME DATE,

CELEBRATIONS AT POINT CHEVALIER.

Side by side -on a table at the residence of Mrs. L. Harrop, of Lynch Street, Point Cherc,lier, are two birthday cakes, both to be cut this evening. One is decorated with 80 tiny candles and the other 2L One cake is to commemorate the birthday of Mrs. Josiah Turtley and the other to celebrate the birthday' of her grandson, Mr." Arnold Harrop, ..who is 21 to-day. "It is a coincidence that grandmother and grandson were both born on January 3. Mrs. Turtley, who met a number of old 'friends this afternoon, arrived from the Old Country with her mother and father in the ship Cadueeus in '18G0. She was then nine years of age, but has vivid memories of Auckland in those early times. Still hale and hearty, with good-hearing and eyesight, Mrs. Turtley talked this morning of Auckland's wonderful progress. When she arrived there was one wharf in Auckland and she remembers that it was occupied by the ship Northern Bride. Queen Street was a quagmire in wet weather, and there were duck boards across the gullies that are now Wyndham and Victoria Streets. Her father, Mr. Charles Turk, lived in the country—or what was termed the country then. He had a market garden in Mount Albert. • Mrs. Turtley recalls that her husband's father, Mr. A. Turtley, was amongst the first immigrants to arrive in New Zealand, and his whare in the Bay of Islands was occupied by Governor Hobson for some time after his arrival. There were no houses and the Governor had to be content with the best that the residents could place at his disposal. Mrs. Turtley has a brother living in Sydney. He is 87 years of age. She has four daughters and eighteen grandchildren. "I have no great-grand-children —yet," she added with a smile.