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A CENTENARIAN PASSES. (rEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, June 18. Mrs Anu Watson, who reached her hundredth birthday in March last, died this afternoon at the Auckland Infirmary, where she was admitted only on the 2nd of this month. Born on March 18th, 1826, at Shoreditch, London, Mrs Watson came out, to Australia 'with her parents. After I a brief stay there the family came on ' to New Zealand, arriving some time prior to January 29th, 1840, for on | that day Mrs Watson saw Governor I Hobson land at the Bay of Islands. I Mrs Watson, her mother and her step- , father (named Johnston) first landed ] at Whangaroa, and then moved down to the Bay of.lslands. Those were the days of rollicking whalo ships, the scenes at Kororareka being sometimes terrible orgies. To show how few Europeans there were at the.Bay in those times, Mrs Watson could recall the fact that her mother, when she arrived made the sixth white woman Snt in the little township that formed the first capital of New Zealand. '
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18722, 19 June 1926, Page 20
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