OLDEST PIONEERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 227, 25 September 1928, Page 3

OLDEST PIONEERS.

, REMARKABLE GATHERING. ! GOVERNOR GENERAL PRESENT. i (By Telegraph.—Press Aratciari«n.l [ WELLINGTON. Monday. i There was a unique gathering at W-ll-i ington to-day nnder the auspices of the f Early Settlers and Historical Association : of Wellington. It was attended by scv- • eral of the pioneers who arrived in New L Zealand in the IS4O decade. Sir Donald s McLean presided. ! The Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, accompanied hy Ladv Alice Forj gnsson, was present. After addressing the • gathering he passed round the hall and t talked informally with the survivors of , the colonisation days. t The honorary secretary, Mr. W. Too- > math, read the roll call of members, and e among those who answered in person i were: Mr. Geo. Judd, of Hutt, who r arrived in New Zealand by the Martha i Ridgway in 1840; Mr. 'George Pain - (Oriental), Mrs. Cornford (The Ger- - trade. 1841), who were presented to their - Excellencies; Mrs. E. J. Brown (nee Kini niburgh), 1843; Mr. Alfred Milk (Johne sonville), 1843; Mrs. Jamieson (nee e Williams), the first white child born at f Tologa Bay; Mr. T. P. Allen (Hutt), 1845; Mrs. Baker and Miss E. H. Allen, e 1849; Mrs. Player. 1850; Miss C. Allen, e 1852; Mrs. Chis'bolm, 1855. e