social, people Colour photo, Sts. Peter and Paul's Church, BuninyongMrs. MATILDA WHITTEN. of Buninyong. who Is sald to be the oldest living pioneer ot Buninyong district, which will achleve its centenary in August this year. She was 81 years old yesterday. Settlement began In Buninyong with the arrival of Mr. Learmonth in August, 1837, when new arrivals in Australia Felix were venturing out from the settlement at Port Phillip In search of pastures for their flocks. The centenary of Buninyong was officially celebrated last Easter, when many former residents and descendants of pioneering families returned to the "Ancient Village" and renewed old friendships. Mrs. Whit- ten is a daughter of the late Mr. George House, who was one of the first arrivals In the district after the discovery of gold by Hitchcock at a place which now bears the discoverer's name, about a mile and a half from Buninyong. One of a family of ten, Mrs. Whltten was born at Bunln- yong, and still lives in the house in which she was reared as a child, and In which she has reared her own family.matilda whitten, matilda house