DEATH AT 107
NEW ZEALAND'S OLDEST INHABITANT EARLY WHALING DAYS RECALLED i (By Telegraph—Press Association) BLENHEIM, This Day. Tha death is announced of Elizabeth Roro, reputed to be 107 years of age and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand. She was a daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp of the whaling brig Caroline which frequented Cloudy Bay during the hey day of the whale fisheries from IS2I until 1810. Captain Bleukinsopp married a Maori wife, a daughter of a local'chieftain and purchased from Te Rauparaha the whole of the Wairau Plain, the price being a spiked cannon, which is still preserved in Blenheim. Te Rauparaha repudiated the bargain and the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau massacre of 1843, which was the beginning of the wars between the Maori and pakelia. Mrs Pore, despite her great age. retained her faculties until recently. She met with an accident in which she sustained a broken leg, since when she has been in the Wairau Hospital. Alfred Rore, the well-known horse owner and trainer is her sou.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 March 1930, Page 7
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174DEATH AT 107 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 March 1930, Page 7
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