Opotiki Pioneer
There passed away recently one of the fast diminishing hand of Opotiki pioneers in the person of Emily Jane Kelly in her eighty-fourth year. Mrs. Kelly, who was the eldest daughter of the iate Frances George and Mary Jane Croon, was the second white child born in Opotiki and had vivid memories of (he terrifying experiences of the Maori War when as a child along with other settlors she used to take refuge at night in the historic Church of England.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23218, 1 April 1950, Page 6
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83Opotiki Pioneer Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23218, 1 April 1950, Page 6
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