A PIONEER'S LIFE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14006, 10 March 1920, Page 2

A PIONEER'S LIFE.

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The distinction of.being: white child horn in Wcliiiißtpffi ed by Mr Thomas iiiK at Raum'tikei Lino; \W TCodcrers celebrated his <?)» day, and to n Mnnniratii;.wj] norter lie ffave sonic mWrcM of his life, . , ■'.•'•& T.i January, IR4O, his_ ma father, who came from* landed on the rM® They wore supplied Vi« amount of canons from'tMß ■vhich tliov had mndc .the W were able to erect-a frinjre of the Imsli thM-flg down to the shore. -In t-lliJj took up their ab'dc. and"! <he first white child to »« district .v'flf: "K life. Then n month Inter,* Hhe ironies of lifff on -fl® father lost lii- life -by MS lartv 'were returiun.2 ■T.'PBs side'of the harbor in/?»$ with a. stiff when the craft cnpstwl; Mi occupants, includiiic; WVm perished - and who had iusfc; c™!' l a «e from Enplnnd. *!«?£ days oceuoied about sKjg .in' a small wriline sI»P;f element of peril, , ried attain later, but -WM ture was as ,lwr second In. stand Maoris within two °f ™% Rodders was still .n»ifcsj has but vnpno earlvdavs,butu,vto|g he lived thcr >and looked nftcrJU cows and a.-Kiirden. ,-AJ : yg . natives were of the days of his. cl}#Bss call to niiiul tinißS -mother crouched stones that f the men ftmirhtparties of natives. , fc s The obvious task.st£»^ ;at, the: age ■ <>M«f H ntfs axe in forests in the.f l^ long since disapp« manicd. and $ and later in the Ullyhe found his gjt. | ment where the m^ & Yortb now l.om the &«S$ of 100 ac.es of I'nJJOT Kuuntikei Tj, »^, iS ntJ^M i«wi«. Out «f Xs,a children, four aie l.v"f t , I, ""ujl Children —sure and certain /iy™