BED-RIDDEN POET.
NINETY YEARS OF AGE. WAIKATO PIONEER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Though bed-ridden for over two years, Mrs. Hungerford Roche, of Firth Street, Hamilton East, who "will be ninety tomorrow, possesses a clear intellect and occupies her time writing verse which she has published for members of her family and intimate friends. Born at Regent's Park. London, she is a lineal descendant of McCallum Mohr, one of the most powerful Scottish chiefs in the eighteenth century. She arrived in Auckland in the early 'fifties and settled in Waikato with her late husband in 1867. Mrs. Roche has had a poem published in the "Church Standard," and a further 32 are in proof form, hut she steadfastly refuses the many requests to have them widely published.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 22
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