Pioneers’ Wedding Anniversary;

Northern Advocate, 8 January 1938, Page 4

Pioneers’ Wedding Anniversary;

[Special To “Northern Advocate ”3 AUCKLAND, This Day. Two pioneers of the Taranaki Province, Mr and Mrs John Veale Dingle, of 3 Boyle Crescent, Grafton, will quietly celebrate the 64th anniversary of their weddington on Monday. The day is doubly important, for it is also the 90th anniversary of Mr Dingle's birth. In a month's time Mrs Dingie will be 85 years of age. Mr Dingle is one of the small band of surviving Maori war pensioners. He is the second son of the late Mr J. H, Dingle, who was one of the party that came to New Zealand in 1840 with Mr F. A. Carrington, chief surveyor of the Plymouth Company to survey the site of the New Plymouth township. After the Maori wars, Mr Dingle started farming at Tataraimaka. He pame to Auckland about 40 years ago, mainly to give his children a better education than was possible in Taranaki, and, although he settled in Auckland he retained an interest in a large farming property at Waiotira, near Whangarei. Mr and Mrs Dingle lived in Khyber Pass for 25 years but for a number of years now have lived in Boyle Crescent. Both Mr and Mrs Dingle are wonderfully alert and cheerful for their years and are ready to chat with enthusiasm about long past days. They have four sons and a married daughter living and a number of grand children and great-grandchildren.