OBITUARY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 56, 30 August 1939, Page 4

OBITUARY

MRS LUCY MARTIN The death occurred on Monday morning in unexpected and tragic circumstances of Mrs Lucy Martin, one of the best known residents of the Rotorua district. She had visited Ohinemutu to pay her respects to the late Mr Archibald Fabling, who was killed as a result of the railway crossing accident at Puku. r.tua "Strect t and when leaving the meetinghouse slipped and struck her head on the concrete steps. A doctor was summoned immediately, but' death must have been instantaneous. Mrs Martin had not been in the best of health for several months. Another tragic feature of the aesident was the fact that the final details of the lease of the Tikitere property with which Mrs Martin's name had been associated for the past 21 years were to have been completed on Monday afternoon after protract, ed negotiations. Mrs Martin had lived all her life in tlit; Rotorua district, the best part of 60 years, for the past 20 of which she was known to the many thousands of visitors to "Hell's Gate" which had been developed as a tourist attraction by her. She was a daughter of the Rev. Ratina Awekotuku, one of the pioneer missionaries of the Rotorua district. She married Mr Montague Mar. tin, a forestry expert of French extraction. Mrs Martin claimed relationship with the tribes of Ngati Whakaue ? Ngati Takinga and Ngati Rangiteao"cre in all which she held high rank. A tangj commcnced on, Monday aftcrnoon at the Waiohewa pa.