"BAD OLD DAYS."
NONAGENARIAN'S MEMORIES,
LONDON, December 20,
Oliver Chalker No. 1, so known as to distinguish him from numbers 2, 3 and 4—his son, grandson, and great-grand-son—is aged 95. He told an interviewer that he had worked as a stonemason in Somersetshire till he was 00.
"Those were bad old days," lie said. "The present is the best time. Just before Waterloo my father was pressed into the army, and he paid a substitute to go instead.
"I remember a friend being exiled to Australia for live years for' having stolen a few potatoes. I recall five men being hanged at Ilchcstcr, one for having stolen a horse. We are not grateful enough for the present blessings of wages, health, and justice."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 4, 5 January 1934, Page 7
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