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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12610, 20 July 1935, Page 5

A link with the pioneering settlement of Southland ahd tho colorful days when its destiny was being shaped, has been severed hy the death of Mrs Grctchen Traill; mother of Mr F. Traill, at one!time of Gisr borne, which occurred nt Eihgn. Einga., Stewart. Island. She . was the only daughter of the Bev. •’Jw F. H. Wohlers, a .German Lutheran minister, who in 1844 established, on Ru.apuke Island, the first, European mission to the Maoris of Murihiku. Including white men, there tvere over 200 people on the island when Mr Wohlers settled there; i'odr years heforo the'arrival of. the: fmsti Otago settlors, 4hnd< lie labored patiently and successfully iii teaching i Christianity and instilling'hahits of industry into the Maoris’ and half-cahtos/ until his death, at “The Neck?’, in: IBBf The late Mrs Traill was horn atEna-puke Island in 1353, and lived i practically the whole of her lifd ori Stewai-t Island, completing her education at a. private school at Invercargill. She married Mr A. W. Traill; .who was,. at tho time, a teacher at thef. Native School on “The Neck.”' ■ ■‘,v