THE LATE MR BROOKIE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10727, 19 August 1913, Page 4

THE LATE MR BROOKIE.

Mr Donald Fraser sends us the fop lowing interesting account-I desk* to send you a few lines out of respect to my late neighbour, Mr Brookie, one of the oldest pioneer of the district. The late Mr BrookiJ together with Mrs Brookie, from Aberdeenshire, the laud of hj, fathers and his own native land, ]„ Wellington in February, 1865, in th|J; ship Westminster; and within a f days of arrival found their way Scott’s Ferry in one of the coast*] vessels. After residing some three or four years in the district hewalked to Wellington, via the sea.= coast, to purchase his farm“Borderside” —so-called after thj< farm on which he lived in Abet, deenshire—from Mr Dickson. improvement on this farm is due t* the energy of the late owner. Pr 0111 his earliest youth the late Brookie was connected with agrical. ture, arid was enterprising enough t 0 bring the first traction engine into the district, an importation which farmers far and wide bene, fited. Like most of our early his hardships were many and his struggle an up-hill one, but owing to his marvellous and untiring ijJ dnstry as a young man he was abl ß to retire in later years from life, "leaving the management of the farm to his youngest son Frank, anil to settle down to a life of ease. With the late Mr Brookie is i e . moved from' our midst a man r e . nowned for his integrity and peace, loving nature, and no one could have desired a better neighbour. Helivej to a greater age, that of 93 years, than any Euronean has yet done ij Lower Kangitikei... He leaves a widow, tnree married sons, and four> married daughters, to mourn (heit loss.