My great Grandmother.

Looking back towards Levin.

To Levin, she was 'Granny Retter', who had cared for their first generation of mothers and babies, and who was a link with the past of both races.

View of the old Retter homestead on the western edge of Lake Horowhenua. Photo taken approx 2007. The site has been known as Procters Farm since approx. 1900.

A rear view of the old Retter homestead on the western edge of Lake Horowhenua. Photo taken approx 2007. The site has been known as Procters Farm since approx. 1900.