OBITUARY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 7

OBITUARY

MRS L. MONK. Word was received in Maslerton yesterday of the death, in Sydney, of Mrs L. Monk. The late Mrs Monk was born in March, Cambridgeshire, England, and came out to'New Zealand with her parents and sisters in the early 60’s in “The Persia,” the voyage taking 130 days. The family landed at Auckland and later left for Nelson where they resided for many years, the parents, Mr and Mrs Atkinson, being licensees of the old Custom House Hotel there. Mrs Monk and her husband were early licensees of the first Masonic Hotel in Cuba Street, Wellington, and later resided in Picton and then Sydney, where Mr Monk died. The late Mrs Monk then became a stewardess and served with the Union Steam Ship Company, Huddart Parker Company, and later with the Adelaide Steam Ship Company, of Australia, for many years.

Besides her two daughters, Mrs G. Shaw, of Sydney, with whom the late Mrs Monk spent her last years, and Mrs D. McKenzie, Elizabeth Street, Masterton, two sons, Messrs W. and H. D. Monk, Auckland, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild are left to mourn their loss.