OLD SETTLER DEAD
EARLY DAYS IN TARANAKI LATE MRS. G. DOUCH Tress Association STRATFORD, Today. Mrs. G. Douch, the first white woman to settle in Inglewood, is dead at the age of 75. She arrived with her husband at New Plymouth in January. 1575 going to Inglewood in a bullock dray when the new settlement was begun. Mrs. Douch. who was then 20 years old, first lived under the shelter of two sheets of iron placed against the end of a Government whare. She and her husband remained in this primitive shelter until a cottage was built for them. They took up a bush section which they cleared. They were often isolated by floods, having no communication with the outside world for weeks. In those days the state of the roads often caused three days to be taken on the trip from Inglewood to New Plymouth Mrs. Douch, who was highly respected, is survived by u family of five, one son being Mr. A. Douch. of Obaupo.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1023, 14 July 1930, Page 9
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