EARLY DAYS RECALLED
Our Own Corresnondent^
Dannevirke Couple^s Golden Wedding
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DANNEVIRKE, Last Night. Two early settlers who remember the days when the railway from Napier had just been completed as far as Takapau, celebrated their golden wedding in Dannevirke to-day. They are "hlr and Mrs E. G. Cowper, who arrived in Dannevirke 60 years ago when the town xvas but a Norwegian village with only oue store of importanee. Their wedding took place on August 25, 1887, at Glenelg, South Australia, Mr Cowper returning with his bride to Kaitoke, where he had 10 years previously taken up a block of land. When Mr Cowper 60 years ago arrived in Dannevirke as a young man the diatrict was very sparsely settled. Tahoraiti was then the centre of the distriet, and there the cEef store and post ofSce combined was situated. When Mrs Cowper arrived in Dannevirke the railway from Napier had just been completed as far as Takapau. There was no road to Weber in those days and they had to go to Kaitoke by the old racecourse road and ford the Manawatu river. Mr and Mrs Cowper retired from their farm at Kaitoke last January, , taking up residence in Dannevirke. Mr Cowper has made a wonderful recovery from his recent serious illness and is now remarkably well.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 12
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