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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXII, Issue 11346, 16 February 1934, Page 3

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TAURANGA FIFTY YEARS AGO

Those who remember the late Mrs Hagerty, whose death occurred at the hospital here recently, will no doubt read with interest the following extract from a letter from London trom Mr Geo. Vesey Stewart, which appeared in the Bay of Plenty Times of February 14th, 1884: — “I have only boked two by this ship (the Alastor), Charles Hage.ly. and his wife Anne. They had secured their berths on the Northumberland, but a few days before her departure their only child (a boy of 11) died of diphtheria, and they were not allowed to embark for fear of infection. I have, I think, alluded to these people in a former letter, and can confidently recommend them to my Tauranga friends. Chas. Hagerty is a carpenter and a ship’s carpenter, a good seaman, and can put his hand to anything. His father is an old Coastguard on a good peasioa, and a zealous Freemason. His wife, Anne, is a first-class cook, and has the highest discharges In the culinary art, one of which states that she prepared soups and jellies and other delicacies for a ball and supper of j 20 persons in a leading gentleman’s West End house. She would therefore, be a valuable acquisition to some of your Tauranga hotels, and as this couple have no encumbrance l consider that they would be found very useful, and as I know them well I can recommend them to my friends.”