90TH BIRTHDAY
RESIDENT OF FRANKTON [ trom our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Sunday A resident of Frankton who has many memories of the hardships met by settlers both on the Canterbury Plains and in the Raglan district is Mrs. Rhoda Watkins, who will celebrate her 90th birthday to-morrow. Mrs. Watkins came to New Zealand from her birth-place in Broughton, England, in the ship Eastern Empire in iB6O. After her marriage in Christchurch she lived near Ashburton before the railway was constructed. Raglan, before the" metalled roads were constructed, was Mrs. Watkins' next home and she recalls being; shut in winter after winter, the only communication with the outside world being through an arduous journey by horseback. After living for a period at Kakahi, in the King Country, Mrs. Watkins lost her husband and seven years ago removed to Frankton. She has four sons and three daughters alive, 31 grandchildren and 27 great-grandclnl-drcn. One son died in the war and another last year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22724, 10 May 1937, Page 3
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