CENTENARIAN’S DEATH
DAUGHTER OF MAORI CHIEF. LINK WITH EARLY WHALING DAYS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Saturday. The death is announced of Elizabeth Bore, reputed to he 107 years of age, and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand. She was the daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling brig Caroline which frequented Cloudy Bay during the hey-day of the whale fisheries from 1821 until 1840. Blenkinsopp married a Maori wife, 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 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 she recently met with an accident in which she sustained a broken leg, since when she lias been in Wairau Hospital. • Alfred Rore, the well-kndwn horseowner and trainer, is her son.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17983, 31 March 1930, Page 9
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164CENTENARIAN’S DEATH Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17983, 31 March 1930, Page 9
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