N.Z.’S OLDEST WOMAN
DEATH AT 107 YEARS DAUGHTER OF WHALER Press Association BLENHEIM, Today. The death is announced of Elizabeth Rore, reputed to be 107 years of age and the oldest inhabitant of Hew 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 Wairau Plain, the price being a spiked cannon which is still preserved in Blenheim. Te Rauparaha repudiated the bargain and the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau massacre of 1843, which was the beginning of the wars between Maori and Pakeha. Mrs. Rore, despite her great age, retained her faculties until recently when she met with an accident in which she received a broken leg. Since then she has been in the Wairau Hospital. Alfred Rore, a wellknown horse owner and trainer, is her son.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 10
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167N.Z.’S OLDEST WOMAN Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 10
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