NOTABLE PIONEER
TARANAKI CENTENARIAN
MISS S. GINGER, OF HAWERA.
MEMORIES OF MAORI WARS
(By 'telegraph—Press Association.)
HAWERA, This Day.
The days when Titokowaru, the fighting chief of the Hauhaus, stalked the plains of Taranaki in 1868, during the second Taranaki war, are among the reminiscences Miss Sophia Ginger, who today celebrates her hundredth birthday. " The only surviving member of a pioneer family of Taranaki, Miss Ginger has been in the province since 1852. She was one of those who evacuated Nelson during the second rising of the Maoris, who later burned her home at Kakaramea an hourafter her brothers had left it for the safety of the Patea redoubt.
Despite her age, Miss Ginger is a woman of remarkable agility and possesses a memory which enables her to recall incidents of 7b years ago without a moment’s hesitation. She has received messages of congratulation, amongst others from their Majesties the King and Queen and from Lord and Lady Galway.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1939, Page 6
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159NOTABLE PIONEER Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1939, Page 6
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