a inmate of the Costley Home celebrates his 98th birthday" to-morrow. ThouW> he has not been outside the 3 for several years he is Still marvellously young and fit for Ins years, and bis mind'is as clear as it was when ], c was half bis a«e. Ho is a keen reader of j;ond literature, and on his table there , " is a little copy of Thomas ii'Kempis' "Imitation of Chri'jt," which is a great favourite of his. The old gentleman comes of a long-lived family, liis father having reached 98, and his grandfather 102.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 5 May 1923, Page 9
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