DEATH OF SOPHIA.
END OF WELL-KNOWN GUIDE
(Per Press Association.) ROTORUA, Dec- 4. The well-known guide Sophia died at Wha'karewarewa early this morning. She was the daughter of a British officer named Grey, her mother being of the Ngatiruanui tribe. Taranaki, and she was born either in Taranaki or the Bay of Islands about 85 years ago. She went through an awful experience at the time of the Tarawera eruption on •Tune 10th, 1886, her whare at the buried village of Wairoa affording shelter to some forty Natives. Sophia guided in her last party the ill-fated Mr Ba,inbridge, who viewed the famous pink and white terraces, and she saw the phantom canoe that the Natives regarded as. a warning of disaster. Sophia. who was educated at the Mission School in the Bay of Islands, -was a. fluent talker, and 'her descriptions of the wonders of the thermal regions and of the eruption were a source of delight and interest to tourists.
Among the notabilities Sophia conducted over the terraces was the Duke of Edinburgh, and on the occasion of the King’s visit to Rotorua she conducted the Duchess of York round Whaka r ewa revn.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3391, 5 December 1911, Page 5
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195DEATH OF SOPHIA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3391, 5 December 1911, Page 5
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