NINETY=THREE TODAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 4

NINETY=THREE TODAY

MRS RICHARD BROWN CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY. Mrs Richard Brown, Essex Street, who has lived in Masterton for sixtyfour years, celebrated her ninetythird birthday today, when she .was the recipient of many good wishes. Enjoying remarkably good health, Mrs Brown takes fi keen interest in the affairs of the day, both in New Zealand and overseas and still reads a good deal.- She has a particular liking for biographies and books of travel. Her earliest recollections of < serious reading relate to Paley’s “Evidences of Christianity,” from which work she is able to give quotations. She delights in reading aloud to her family extracts from books and daily papers that she thinks may be of general interest. Mrs Brown came' to New Zealand with her husband, the late Mr Richard Brown, in 1874. Masterton became i borough in 1877 and the office of Town Clerk was held by Mr Brown x . almost from the inception of the borough and for the next thirty-one years. Mr Brown died in 1929, a year after he and his wife had celebrated their diamond wedding. Possessed of a retentive memory, Mrs Brown looks sack upon a remarkably extended experience of life in Masterton in. pioneering and later days and retains in full measure also her range of wider interests.