OBITUARY

Matamata Record, Volume XX, Issue 2014, 6 March 1939, Page 3

OBITUARY

MRS. J. P. MUNRO A pioneer of Otago, Mrs. Eleanor Agnes Munro. widow of the late Mr. J. P. Munro, and mother of Mr. H. A. Munro, of Morrinsville, died in Dunedin on Saturday, aged 81 years. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Munro were summoned to Dunedin last week, and Mr. Munro arrived just a few minutes after his mother had expired. From time to time Mrs. Munro had visited her son at Morrinsville. and will be remembered by friends in this district.

As a girl of 17 Mrs. Munro came out to Dunedin from Ireland in the ship Wild Deer 64 years ago. She was the youngest of a family of 11. She married Mr. J. P. Munro in Dunedin, this being the first wedding in the newly-created parish of South Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. Munro lived in turn at Oamaru and at Weatherstones, near the historic Gabriel’s Gully goldfield. Mr. Munro died in 1916. Mrs. Munro is survived by two daughters, who reside in Christchurch, and by three sons. Messrs. H. A. Munro, of Morrinsville, J. Munro, of Auckland, and C. Munro, of Dunedin.

MRS. G. HUTCHINSON The death occurred recently at Hamilton of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hutchinson, aged 78 years, mother of Mrs. F. Bland, of Mangateparu. For most of the 17 years that Mrs. Hutchinson had resided in New Zealand she lived with Mr. and Mrs. Bland., Mrs. Hutchinson was born at Strathern, Leicestershire, in 1861. In 1880 she married Mr. George Hutchinson at Dodsworth, Yorkshire, and later resided in Bolton, Lanca-

shire, where she remained until 1921 when she came to New Zealand to rejoin her three youngest children, who had settled in the Dominion. She is survived by six children —

Messrs. Fred and Henry Hutchinson and Mrs. W. Taylor (Bolton. Lancashire, England), Mr. Tom Hutchinson (Mercer), Mrs. E. Ennion (Ohaupo) and Mrs. R. Bland (Morrinsville). There are 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.