WOMAN 109 YEARS OLD
FRAIL BUT LIVING ALONE (New Zealand Press Association) MASTERTON, January 23.
Sole survivor of her community at Whakataki, 40 miles from Masterton, Wairarapa’s oldest resident, Mrs Bella Putawai, has entered her 110th year. She lives alone in a little cottage adjoining the decaying old meeting house at Whakataki.
Mrs Putawai worked ’ nearly 100 vears ago for Mr and Mrs Thomas Guthrie at Castlepoint, near Whakataki. They were pioneer settlers who arrived there in 1843. She was alive when Williams and Colenso landed at Deliverance cove, Castlepoint, in 1843, and remembers clearly the Waitangi Treaty celebra : tions at Mataikona pa. Mrs is not now enjoying good anu is very frail.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26020, 25 January 1950, Page 2
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