DEATH OF A FAMOUS GUIDE
Si' "SOPHIA;;; OF ROT ORU A. [BT TCLEGR-VrH.— OWN- CORRESPONDENT-] , .I". I.^;"X^ s : j.-.; „•.< Rotorva. Monday. Tn, well-known guide, Sophia, died at £;»AVhakarewarewa early, this mornin o » g 85 years. • ;, Sophia- who has beert a fStS Rotorua for nwwiy her mother of a British officer .named Gre> her mm £2 "UkSSSIS "ro y « B °b «3 e on The r * before the Wairoa eruption she saw a Seal Mao. on Ld» tog«lto with a create disturbance of the waters. ' which tho natives took to bo a earning of - rrrrat "import. Sophia was educated at a *$$£&»**** Bay of Islands Being ' a fluent speaker, her descriptions of the wonders of tho : thermal regions and of the ; - '-eruption were » source of debght and ini to tourists, by a}l .# whom she was greatly respected • f - • '• |
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14855, 5 December 1911, Page 8
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