STURDY PIONEER

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 12

STURDY PIONEER

BROWN'S BAY RESIDENT,

A man who can remember buying produce from Maoris who landed from their canoes on the beach at the foot of Shortland Street celebrated his ninetieth birthday at Brown's Bay last week.' lie is Mr. Andrew Graham, for 41 years a resident of Birkenhead, but for the last 11 years a resident of Brown's Bay. Mr. Gah am'B parents left England fcr Australia in 1851, and came to New Zealand in 1855, when he was 10. They landed at Wellington and came to Onehunga by sea, their belongings being floated asht.re in a chest which has been in the family's possession for 200 years, and which Mr. Graham still possesses. They took up land at the Wade, but later came to Auckland, where Mr. Graham's father became a prominent temperance worker and a member of the Provincial Council. Mr. Andrew Graham was a prospector for a time at Hokitika and Thames, and then returned to Auckland, where for 10 years he was a foreman for the firm of W. Phillipps and Son, now Phillipps and Inipey, Ltd. lie is active and in good health. His wife died some years ago.