OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 18

OBITUARY

MRS. C. E. ZOHRAB,

A remarkable woman, one who is .described by one of her many friends as having been the ideal mother, creating a happy home atmosphere and bringing up her children with wonderful simplicity, died this morning. She was Mrs. C. E. Zohrab, a well-known and much-loved resident of Wellington. She was born in England in 1850. When her parents, Captain and. Mrs.

Wills,■■: migrated ,to New Zealand the late Mrs. Zohrab was only six months old, - and she had lived in Wellington ever since. After her marriage to Mr. C. ,E.\Zohrab, who died -in 1897, she and her husband and family lived for many, years in, Roxburgh .Street,, where they had a beautiful'home in large grounds, which in latter years, like so many of the old estates, was cut up into smaller sections. In the days of the Rev. Mr. Coffee, Mrs. Zohrab was a great helper in St. Mark's Church, and all her life she was always doing something for other people. Whatever she did was always ■ done unostentatiously, but her efforts to help in.whatever was for the benefit of the city were unceasing, and the way in which she brought up her family of eleven children, all of whom made a respected place for themselves in the world, speaks volumes for her sweet disposition and her character.

She had nine daughters and two sons, the'daughters being Miss F. Zohrab, Mrs. Sanderson,' Mrs. G. Hutchinson (Wisconsin, U.S.A.), Mrs. F. B. Mabin (Waitara), Mrs. F. Bevin (Te Awamutu), Mrs. F. Colledge (Auckland), Mrs. King (Whetakura, Hawke's Bay), Mrs. Tennant, whp died some years ago, and Mrs. Bruce (Ashburton), and the sons, Mr. E.'F, G. Zohrab (Wellington)', who died in 1933, and Mr. C. E. H. Zohrab (Te Awamutu).

Mrs. Zohrab was in her eighty-eighth year, and her death occurred at 15 Everton Terrace, where she has been living for some years with Miss Zohrab and Mrs. Sanderson.

tutes will be well represented by exhibitors. ' '. \ : '. . '

Nominations for the incoming committee were invited. The annual meeting will be held in March.. "

Afternoon tea was served by the hostesses, and' the '< remainder; of '.the afternoon was enjoy ably spent with competitions and games, those successful in winning, prizn. being Mesdames Mabey and Carr; / STOKES VALLEY BRANCH. Stokes Valley Women's Institute' was fortunate in securing an overseas visi- ' tor, Mrs^ Evap M. Seward, of London, "who:;gave an interesting address at 'their recent meeting. ;■■ , Mrs. Seward spoke. at length of the Fairbridge Farm School at Pinjarra, 50 miles from Perth, Western Australia, where carefully selected bays and girls, of approximately nine years of age, from English institutions are trained in farm work and domestic science. The trainees live in well constructed, houses built of-jarrah throughout, 20 to' is being the limit for each cottage establishment, ■ which has 'its own capable and sympathetic , cottage mother in charge. ;• Expert agriculturists, butcher's,' gym. instructors, and domestic. science teachers all give instruction. A total of 1000 young men trained at Fairbridge Farm are rf)w working on farms. The applications from farmers average four for each youth ready to go out. The failures represent not more than 1 per cent, of the whole. These are sent back to England,, so that no responsibility for failures has to be shouldered by Australia. Until the boys and girls reach the age of 21, they are under the legal guardianship-i>f the institution, but it has now. been proposed to raise the age. to 24.Mrs. Seward was accorded a hearty vote of thanks, and presented by the president, Mrs. Cording, with a beautiful autumn spray. Miss Maddever, organising secretary for women's institutes, who also ad-, dressed the meeting on institute mat-! ters, was also presented-with a spray. ■:'A dainty afternoon tea was served by the hostesses/ Mesdames Montgomery and Payne, assisted by Mesdames Harrison, Deer, Cobby, and others..".. .-.-A ; ..> ' .' . ■