OLDEST INHABITANT DIES
RELECT OF THE WHALING DAYS. AM) WAIRAU MASSACRE. Press Associ ation— Cofpyrieht, BLENHEIM, This Day. The death is announced of Elizabeth Rore, reputed to he 107 years of age and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand. She was a daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling ship Caroline, which frequented Cloudy Bay during the keyday of the whale fisheries from 1821 until 1840. Blenkinsopp married a Maori wife, a daughter of a local chieftwn, and purchased from Te Rauparaha the whole Wairau plain, the price being a spiked cannon, which is still preserved in Blenheim. Te Rauparaha repudiated the bargain, and 'the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau massacre of 1843, which, wajs the beginning of the wars between Maori and pakeha. Mrs Rore, despite her great age, retained her faculties until recently. She met with an accident in which she sustained a broken leg, since when she has been In ttte Wairau Hospital. . , Alfred Rore, the well-known horse owner and trainer, is her eon*
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 26, 29 March 1930, Page 4
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