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Mrs Hape Chase The death has occurred at Taumarunui of Rangiwhio Katarina (Mrs Hape Chase) at the age of 89 years. She was the daughter of Mr Alexander Bell, the first white man to settle permanently in Taumarunui. Mr Bell, a member of the Armed Constabulary, an Englishman who had formerly been a sailor, married Katarina Te Waihanea, daughter of Te Awhiut, a high-ranking Taumarunui Maori, at Wairoa. Their first child was Rangiwhio Katarina. The couple and their daughter, aged two, in 1874 trekked all the way from Wairoa to Taumarunui. The daughter later married Mr Hape Chase, one of the best-known ‘skippers with Hatrick and Company's fleet of Wanganui river-boats which plied between Taumarunui and Wanganui till the service cased in 1928. Mrs Chase is surveived by two sons, William and Paerata.

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Te Ao Hou, December 1962, Page 64

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Mrs Hape Chase Te Ao Hou, December 1962, Page 64

Mrs Hape Chase Te Ao Hou, December 1962, Page 64