DEATH OF DOMINION’S OLDEST INHABITANT.
ELIZABETH ROHE, AETAT 107. Blenheim, March 29. The death is announced of Elizabeth Bore, reputed to be 107 years of age, and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand. She was a daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling brig Caroline, which frequented Cloudy Bay during the heyday of the whale fisheries from .1821 until 1840. Blenkinsopp married a Maori wife, the daughter of a local chieftain, and purchased from Te Rauparaha the whole of the Wairau plain, the price being a spiked cannon, which is still preserved in Blenheim. Te Rauparaha repudiated the and the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau massacre of 1843, which was the beginning of the wars between the Maori and the pa'kcha. Mrs. Bore, despite her great age, retained her faculties until recently she met with an accident in which a leg was broken. Since then she lias been in the Wairau hospital. Alfred Rove, a. well-known horse owner and trainer, is her son.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4434, 1 April 1930, Page 3
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166DEATH OF DOMINION’S OLDEST INHABITANT. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4434, 1 April 1930, Page 3
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