BIRTHDAY PARTY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 16

BIRTHDAY PARTY

NINETY YEARS OF AGE Miss Ann Loring, who yesterday celebrated her 90th birthday, was the guest of the Rev. R. G. Coats and Mrs. Coats at a morning tea party which was given at St. Luke's Vicarage at Mount Albert in her honour. Mrs. Coats, with Miss Loring, received the guests in the drawing, room, which was looking very bright and attractive with pink flowers. After Miss Loring had cut the birthday cake Mr. Coats made a speech, in which lie referred to the valuable work she had done in connection with the church of St. Epiphany. She had been a most keen church worker and her whole life had been a constant inspiration to all who came in contact with her, said. Miss Loring's people had landed in Tasmania from England in 1843, after a three months' voyage on the Margaret "VVilkie, and had settled on the land. In 1809 her father had sold the farm and left Tasmania, where she had been born, for Melbourne. They travelled in Australia on what was then a new railway and then by Cobb's coach as far as the Murray River, in the Riverina district, her father finally settling on Oil Tree Station, where they lived for many years. Later the family left for Punedin, in New Zealand, where Miss Loring lived for 25 years. The remainder of her years she has spent in Auckland. Among those present at the party were: —Sister Edith, Miss Griffin, Miss Cord ell. Captain Porter, Mhl Daniels, Mrs. Carev, Mrs. Havorfißld Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Rutland, Mrs. Hodder, Mrs. Broadnore, Miss McMasters.