NINETY-THEREE YEARS OLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 106, 1 April 1930, Page 6

NINETY-THEREE YEARS OLD .

EARLY PIONEEIJg BIRTHDa|. NEARLY 80 YEARLY DOMINIO*. Thirteen childreiMc grandchildren and 51 great-gramlmrren are;', the total descendants of Hi Amos Burr, of Waldegrave Street®, .ho yesterday celebrated her nine®-urd birthday'.'' Despite her adva®e<age, Mrs Burr was remarkably briHjjbi'lien a “Standard” reporter call® non her day afternoon aflih residency in, Waldegrave StreenKO her daughter, Mis J. Rogers. Ajjßojh the daj®iad been a tiring onßßyvth her many l friends calling to oWig.tulate her,ltli’e nonagenarian wasffior the worse|»or' the excitement. fIR, - _ i Recalling her flH'g association with this district, Mrsfgurmentioned that all her children .Bare born in i£e Manawatu. Twttjfflkrc over seventy years, while anqHKr.rill attain me;' allotted span thi^ffifea Bom in Chelifflba although slie; lived most of hffiPgihood days in. Bath, Miss HosljMß,is she was then; '/■ left the Old CoiiJijh 1 , ith her parents, at the age of 15ffl»h family came outs on the Poitiers, vich were settlers’; brought out by ■Kdw Zealand Gov-1 ernment. The JBriv occupied six months, the family arriving in Wellington ■M.B. Mr Hoskings opened one of 'jMRt-ly shops in the Capital City. JMjiriig back to the davs before smßpe England, Mrs Burr remarkedlßSfc e had visited the Hydo Park EdHtii, the first of its kind to be hel®» 1; world. Following Mrs Burr went to live where her husband, wlioa|®-a> a native interpreter, had cattle run. Later, she oMMd t» Ferry Hotel in Foxton, the SMBHicised house in that town. BeingJHip 'riding Mrs Burr saw much untry, travelling on horsebackMpd « was the first white womaifflKft'Lrse the road between almerston North. After 40 in Foxton, Mrs Burr to Palmerston North 35 ye«MS»go A staunch^^B»pr €r c f the Established ChjHß, rs Burr had her first three jMßldi ; christened by Bishop Sehvi^® Despite the results confine her to her room, retains the full possession culties and looks forward qui^HßP'i con fidently to the advent of tjMHptl;, enera tion 0 f the Mrs i congratulatory telegrams vcr New Zealand