OVER A CENTURY
WOMAN'S fiIftTHDAY^
(By Telegraph'—'Press Association.) ,- > "AUCKLAND,' May' 7.
Mrs. M. A. Hillis, Upper ;Queen Street, Onehunga; will" celebrate her lO2n! birthday on Wednesday next. She has lived under six British Sovereigns.
Born in Kent in 1835, when William ty .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 a bride by.the ship., Merchantman, Governor 'Gore-Brown was a fellowpassenger. ' 1
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 15
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