OBITUARY
MISS A. DORSET (New Zealand Press Association; WELLINGTON, August 26. A link with earliest Wellington was broken this morning with tne death of Miss Ada Caroline Dorset, at the age of 88. She made her lifetime home in Park street. Thorndon, one of the few remaining, houses provided by the New Zealand Company, the founders of Wellington. Miss Dorset was the last of the daughters of Mr William Dorset, and was a niece of Dr. Dorset, a medical man who came out to New Zealand in the service of the New Zealand Company. It was after him that Fort Dorset at Seatoun was named. A brother of Miss Dorset was Mr Arthur Dorset, for more than 25 years secretary of the Wellington Education Board. Miss Dorset had many lively memories of the early days in Wellington, which she saw grow from a small seaside settlement to a modern city.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26510, 27 August 1951, Page 2
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150OBITUARY Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26510, 27 August 1951, Page 2
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