THE LATE MR J. L. JOPP, One of the early day goldfields carriers, 20 odd years mine host of the Royal Oak Hotel, Arrowtown, and one of the most popular and best-known men on the goldfields. MRS F. BROWN, OF CLYDE. , This lady, who is about 80 years of age, arrived with her husband on the Dunstan goldfields in the early sixties, when Muttontown Gully was the centre of a golden rush. She is now the oldest female resident in Clyde, and has seen and helped in its transformation from a canvas settlement to the present picturesque town, with its we.l-appointed hostelries, up-to-date buildings, and dai'y train service. Comfortably well off, Mrs Brown is enjoying in the evening of life the well-earned rest of an industrious and plucky pioneer. —Jas. T Ramsay, photo.

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 50

THE LATE MR J. L. JOPP, One of the early day goldfields carriers, 20 odd years mine host of the Royal Oak Hotel, Arrowtown, and one of the most popular and best-known men on the goldfields.

MRS F. BROWN, OF CLYDE. This lady, who is about 80 years of age, arrived with her husband on the Dunstan goldfields in the early sixties, when Muttontown Gully was the centre of a golden rush. She is now the oldest female resident in Clyde, and has seen and helped in its transformation from a canvas settlement to the present picturesque town, with its well-appointed hostelries, up-to-date buildings, and daily train service. Comfortably well off, Mrs Brown is enjoying in the evening of life the well-earned rest of an industrious and plucky pioneer. — Jas. T Ramsay, photo.