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Woman Resident of Onehunga By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 7. Mrs. M. A. Hillis, Upper Queen Street, Onehunga, will celebrate her 102nd. birthday on Wednesday next. She has lived under six British sovereigns. Born in Kent in 1835, when William IV was King, she knew Auckland In 1855 when it was a hamlet, when Queen Street was a dirty clay track without footpaths, and when a verandah was a curiosity. She arrived in Auckland as bride by the ship Merchantman. Governor Gore-Brown was a. ■ fellow-passenger.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 10
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