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Northern Advocate, 11 February 1931, Page 4

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Mr Henry Hayward and Mr Phil. Hayward, of the Board of Directors <-f Messrs Fuller-Hay ward, controllers ol tin' Town Hall and Lyceum Theatre talkies, arrived in Whangarei today by tire express on business connected with the theatres.

Miss Kate Williams, who was PU years of age, died in the Napier Hospital from injuries received white attending Divine service at St. John’s Cathedral in Xapier. The late Miss Williams was one of the Williams family so intimately connected with the early days of the British occupation of Xew Zealand. She was a daughter of the Rev. W. Williams, who, at the Bay of Islands in 1845, nnavailingly proffered “uth” to Hone Heke, when the slave girl, MrsLord, grossly insulted that fiery chief by comparing him t o a slaughtered pig hanging in her husband’s shop. This was the beginning of the troubles that came to a climax in the sacking of Kororareka. When her father was elected the first Bishop of Waiapu, she went to. Napier with the family, and became associated with the management of the Hukarere Maori School for Girls. Many hundreds of girls of Maori blood, as w T ell as all who know her, will hold her in affectionate remembrance. The daughter of the first, she was the sister of the third, and the aunt of the fifth, Bishop of Waiapu.