MR AND MRS WALKER HOLD GOLDEN WEDDING
Mr and Mrs James Walker, of Maraekakaho, .who celebrate. their golden wedding to-day, February 3, were the second parties to be married in St. Matthew 's Church, Hastings, the first being about two weeks earlier. They have now completed a wonderful record, having lived in the district ever since, and rearing their family of four sons and two daughtera — two sons paying the supreme sacrifiee in the Great War. Mrs Walker 's life is unique in that she was the first girl in the Maraekakaho district, being there in the time of Sir Donald McLean, and the only one in the district who remembers him. Her many reminiscences of those early times at the station are both interesting and edueative, and sho is able to trace its progress from the swamp and ti-tree state to its present productive capacity. When the station was cut ap in 1929 at the death of Sir Douglas McLean, Mr Walker had been 52 years working on the station, and in the capacity of stud-sheep master he had attended the H.B. A. and P. shows for 43 conseeutivq years— a great ^T«cords
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 12
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