WIDOW OF MARINER
DEATH OF MRS. ELLEN K. BEST
Mrs. Ellen Kate Best, widow of Captain G. C. Best, who was in former days one of the most widely-known mariners on the New Zealand coast, died at Devonport on Monday, at the age of 72. Captain Best, who first came to New Zealand as an officer of the Ida Ziegler, one of the “crack” sailers in the New Zealand trade, was afterwards harbourmaster at Thames, and at Tauranga, and the last harbourmaster at Russell. Settling in Auckland as a marine surveyor and Cus-
toms agent, Captain Best and Mrs. Best lived in Devonport, where the captain died in 1914. Mrs. Best has been closely identified with the Holy Trinity Church, Devonport, and later with St. Augustine’s, Stanley Bay.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 16
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128WIDOW OF MARINER Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 16
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