SAW AUCKLAND GROW

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 11

SAW AUCKLAND GROW

DEATH OF MRS. H. BAIRD

EIGHTY-NINE YEARS IN N.Z. By the death yesterday of Mrs. Helen Baird, of Fairview. Papatoetoe, one of Auckland's oldest colonists, the Papatoetoe Presbyterian Church has lost one of its foundation members of 75 years ago. Mrs. Baird, who was. in her 94th year, came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Palmyra, in 284 U. and lived in Auckland since IS4I. She was the daughter of the late Mr. William Goodfellow. who bought City land at the first sale held in the days of

Governor Hobson, and was one of Auckland’s earliest business men. Mrs. Baird was born at Howick, in Boxburgshire, England, on April 29, 3836. Through the delay of the sailing of their ships from Greenock, Mr. Goodfellow came into possession of the prospectus of the New Zealand Settlement Company, and instead of going I<> Australia, as intended, lie went to New Zealand. He enrolled himself as a colonist of Wellington, and acquired rights which entitled him to land in that district. One of his companions on the voyage out was the late Sir John Logan Campbell, who travelled as ship’s surgeon. After spending 18 months at Port Nicholson, Mr. Goodfellow came to Auckland, and at the first sale of City lots bought the property at the corner of Queen and Wyndaiam Streets, now owned by the Bank of Australasia. Here he built his bakery. The property stood on the edge of the Li gar Canal, which carried the water from the vicinity of Grey’s Avenue and Upper Queen Street. Jn 1848 Mr, Goodfellow left the City and settled upon farm land, which he had bought at West Taniaki, and later went to East Tamaki, where he remained for the rest of his life.