AGE AND POLITICS.
As one frequently hears Sir J. G. Ward's age mentioned as being against him, permit mo to say that there have been manyma who are, or were, greater at sixty-five to e&hty years than even in their youth, viz., W Gladstone, Venizelos, Lord Salisbury, Clemen- «**- , A striking fact is that althonirk physically they are not so good at these ajreZ the mentality of "grand old men" seldom declines until the last. PATRIARCHAL. •
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 6
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