Pioneer Of Tonga.
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Death Of Mrs. Mary
Brahne
THE death occurred in Sydney on Feb ruary 1 of Mrs. Mary Brahne, who had been a resident of Tonga since 1879.
The late Mrs. Brahne was an Aus tralian and, in 1879, sailed with her brother in the schooner “John Wesley” on what was in those days an adventur ous voyage.
In Tonga she met and married Mr.
Brahne and settled on his plantation near Nukualofa. Mrs. Brahne had ten children, of whom three sons are still in Tonga; a daughter Violet is a nurse at the War Memorial Hospital, Suva; and two sons are in Auckland.
After the death of her husband, about three years ago, the late Mrs. Brahne came to Sydney and had been living quietly at Neutral Bay.