OBITUARY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 299, 4 December 1935, Page 10

OBITUARY

Miss Catherine Fraser

The death of Miss Catherine Fraser, which occurred at tho residence of Mrs McCosh, Upper Aramoho, Wanganut, severs another link with the early pioneers of the Bangitikei. The deceased lady, who was over 90 years or age at the time of her death, was the last of a family of .14 of the late Mr. Duncan Fraser who, with his wife, came to New Zealand by the ship Blenheim and landed in Wellington in 1840, afterwards settling at Parewanui, Bulls. Those were the wild early days, when there were few white people in tho country. Miss Catherine Fraser was born at “Pukehou,” Bulls, and on the death of her father went to Patea, where she conducted a private school for some 20 years, later retiring to Arauwho, where she spent the remainder of her days. She bore the stamp of the old pioneers and looked back on a family record of which anyone might he proud. “Aunt Kate” was the familiar title by which she was known to practically the whole of the Bulls district, and her father and mother and the rest of tho family were known throughout the length and breadth of the Bangitikei. Her parents, when they came to New Zealand, had five child--en, one of whom was born when the chip was crossing the turbulent Bay of Biscay. The Frasers hailed from Inverness and brought with them that hardy spirit of the Scots which did so much to lay well the foundations of the Dominion.