GREYTOWN
OLD SETTLERS’ RE-UNION CENTENNIAL SUGGESTION. ("Times-Age” Special.) There is a suggestion that the Wellington Early Settlers’ and Historical Society hold their annual re-union at Greytown on February 17, instead of at Taratahi as in other years. If this suggestion is carried out the event would give added interest to the local Centennial celebrations, which are being held essentially to honour the pioneers. Applications are already coming in freely for special ribbons supplied by the Government for wearing during the celebrations. The honoured place for age and length of residence in New Zealand is so far held by Mr W. B. Allen, of West Taratahi, who states that he was bom at Pipitea Point on August 19, 1847, and has 73 years’ residence in the Wairarapa to his credit. There died in Greytown in August, 1902, Mr Hugh McMaster who was credited with having been the first white child born in the Wairarapa. He was born at Tuhitarata, being the eldest son of Mr Angus McMaster, one of the very earliest settlers of the Wairarapa. Personal Items. Mrs J. Amey and family, of Te Awamutu, are on a visit to Greytown. Mr H. Walden, of McMaster Street, left today on a holiday which is to be spent at Island Bay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1940, Page 7
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