OBITUARY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 152, 14 June 1935, Page 8

OBITUARY

Miss F. A. Hankins Tn the death yesterday morning of ! Miss Frances Alice Hankins, Napier has lost a most refined and charming i lady. Her retiring disposition has resulted in her circle of friends being perhaps not very large, but those whose good fortune it has been to come in contact with her have had nothing but admiration for her strength of charac- . ter, uprightness and sincerity. She was born i.i Melbourne in the i pioneering days of 1853, of which she delighted io speak in a most interesting manner right up to the time of her death. She first saw New Zealand as a young woman, her father coming to this country where 1-e was concerned in the establishment of newspapers in Nelson, Hokitika and Pa tea, being later associated in an editorial capacity with the “Evening Post” in Wellington. For the last 30 years the late Miss Hankins has been connected with Mr and Mrs J. S. Butler, Shakespeare Terrace, Napier, and their family, and they, as well as those who knew her, will look back upon her life as being full, of admirable qualities and usefulness. Mrs. J. M. McKinnon , The death occurred nt the Wairoa ! Hospital yesterday morning of another I ■if Wairoa's pioneer settlers in the | /erson of Mrs Martha McKinnon, wife; f Mr J. M. (John) McKinnon, of j “Karamu,” vapier-Wairoa road. The i incensed lady was 70 years of age. and j ■ > ns the only daughter of the late Mr lohn Davis and Mrs Davis, both wellknown settlers of Hawke's Bay and Wairoa in the early days. Her father was tlio proprietor of tbo “Wairoa Free Press,” tbo first paper published in Wairoa in 1577. Who pent to Wai-

roa in her teens, and in 1886 married Mr John M. McKinnon, son of the late Air John McKinnon, of Arapawanui. Besides her husband «he leaves three sons, Messrs Frank, Allan and Angus, to mourn their loss. Another son, lan. was killed in the Great War while serving with the Australian forces. The deceased lived a very quite and retired life and her death leaves another gap in the ranks of the early Wairoa pioneers. The funeral takes -dace at Wairoa Cemetery at 2 p.m. to-day (Friday). It is unfortunate that Mr McKinnon himself is also in hospital at _ resent.