HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21160, 18 April 1932, Page 10

HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY.

CELEBRATION TO-MORROW.

MRS. H. M. JERVIS, OF AUCKLAND

The 100 th birthday of Mrs. Henry Mahon Jervis will be celebrated tomorrow at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. P. R. Eraser, St. Stephen's Avenue, and a party has been arranged in honour of the anniversary. Four generations of the family will be represented at the gathering, to which about 60 guests have been invited.

Mrs. Jervis came to New Zealand in 1849 as a girl of 17, being landed the beach at the foot of Shortland Street. Six years after her arrival in Auckland Miss Dodds, as Mrs. Jervis then was, married Mr. Henry Mahon Jervis, who had arrived in Auckland soon after it was founded by Governor Hobson. All Mrs. Jervis* life since her arrival in New Zealand has been spent in ■A"®'®" land, except for occasional trips. Shfl lived after her marriage first in Emily Place and Mr. and Mrs. Jervis were later among the first people to take up their residence at North Shore. Mrs. Jervis is acquainted with almost ' 8 whole of Auckland's history. Three daughters and two sons ' Jervis' 10 children are still livingare Mrs. L. Rees, Mrs. W. Goldswortin and Mrs. P. R. Eraser, and Messrs. • M. and N. M. Jervis, of Auckland. Hiere are 19 grandchildren and 30 great-gi& n children.