OBITUARY
MRS. ELSDON BEST. The death occurred in Wellington on Monday of Mary Adelaide, widow o£ the late Mr. Elsdon Best, the gifted Maori scholar, writer, and historian (who died in 1931). Mrs. Best was one of four daughters of Mr. Wyhe, one of the early pioneer farmers of the Galatea district, in the Urewera Country, and it was while Mr. Best was making one of his visits to the Maoris of that district that they met. Mrs Best was a schoolteacher, and though of a quiet, retiring nature, gave her husband a good deal of valuable help in connection with his literary work on the Maori subjects on which he was an authority. Mrs. Best, who was in her seventy-second year, had lived in Wellington for about a quarter of a century. There was no family. There are three living sisters, Mrs. Hallett (Taupo), Mrs. Turnbull (Fort Galatea), and Miss Wylie (Otaki).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1944, Page 8
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153OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1944, Page 8
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