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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 10 July 1915, Page 2

The Old Girls' Association will hold a club evening at the Girls' College on Saturday,, the, 17th inst. , The programme will be given by present girls of : ie College, and the proceeds will be in aid of tho Sick and Wounded Soldiers' Lund . : , : *■ Old' Lady {to nephew 0a I 'leave fronv the Front): "Good-bye, any dear boy, and try and findi, time 'to send a postcard to let me know you are safely back; in the 'trenches.". * , One of Australia's most patriotic and deserving citizens has just died at Bet vie,, near Tamora, states a Sydney .paper.', She: —for it was 1 a lady—was- lai'gely respon-l sible for the clearing and settling of almost the whole district, and the' development of holdings worth altogether ncarw £150,000. She caire. there in the early days; she had. 14 children there, and they took after her to such, effect that there are now 95 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, -and 5 great-great-' strandclrMdren —a total altogether of; 1 about 130. And between the lot of them they practically made the place. Orders of .merit and all sorts of -wonderful; look---ing decorations have foeen given, for. much smaller achievements than. this. Mrs Augusta Breaist added a new district to the State, and she did so by risking her life 14 times, quite apart from l all tho work and "worry of helping a. family of 14 to grow out of one set of troubles into the next. , .