GOLDEN WEDDING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19315, 4 May 1937, Page 9

GOLDEN WEDDING

MR. AND MRS. G. MAYO .UAKIMKI) IX WAIROA Married at Wairoa in ISS7, Mr. and Mrs. 0. F. Mayo, Palmerston North, celebrated their golden wedding- during the week-end, when there was a family reunion at their residence in Brightwater terrace.

Mr. Mayo was born at Bayswater, Richmond, Surrey, and came to Now Zealand at the age of five. Mrs. Mayo was horn in the Dominion. Both families lived in the Itawke's Bay and Poverty Bay districts, and the heads of tho two families saw service in the Maori wars. The Mayo home was within halt" a mile of the massacre in Poverty Bay when Major and Mrs. Wilson were killed by marauding Maoris. On another occasion, while her husband was on service, Mrs. Mayo, sen., was persuaded by friendly Maoris to join them in their flight b\ canoe to Wairoa to escape an attacking tribe. That the warning was timely was evident when they returned to find that their homo hud been burned. Thirty-nine years ago Mr. and Mrs. Mayo took up their residence in Palmerston North and for the past 33 years they have lived in Brightwater terrace. They have brought up a family of 10 children, four of the sons and two daughters being residents of Palmerston North. One member of the family lives in Punedin and three in tho Stratford district. Of Mr. Mayo's own family, live brothers and three of their sons are still living. Mrs. Mayo has two brothers and seven sisters.