UNDER SIX MONARCHES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 106, 21 May 1937, Page 5

UNDER SIX MONARCHES

Nelson Pioneer Saw Victoria's Coronation Procession 102nd. BIRTHDAY TO-MORROW Living through the reigns of eix monarclis, oue of New Zealand' s oldest pioncera Mrs T. A. Bronxell, of Seymour Aveijue, Nelson, celebrates her 102nd. birthday to-morrow. One of her sons is Mr G. J. Bromell, a wellknown resiaent of Waipukurau, who said this n.orning that, except for physieal disatj.xties duc to hor age, his m other sfii1, rttaiuen al her meixtal faculfcies an«' toik ? great interest in pubiic affairs. Fi'iends of her family in all paris of the Domxnion will join ixx exVpdirg to Mrs Bromell congratulations on her 102nd birthday. "My mother was born at Clifton, Gloucertershi.-e, England," said Mr Bromell this monxing. "She came to .New Zealand in 1868 and has lived in Nelson practica-Uy the whole of her life. Those of her children still aliye are Ph'lip (Nei ■>'-ii), Erlmund (Nelson: Miss Bromell (Nelson), Mrs G. Tliomas (Devoixport, Auckland), and mvself. ^ 1 On the oo.asion of her hundredth birthday," be added, "xve had 'a great celebration, but this tinie she is going to tak.J her bnthday quietly." Tlxis old pioneex- was only a young child whexx Queen Victoria was crowm cd. and duriug her Coronation celebrations sne was carried on her father's shoulders to see the pi'ocession go by. Sinea that memorabi© occasion she has pa -ticipated in three more Coronation cexsbrations.