CENTENARIAN DIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 28 November 1925, Page 18

CENTENARIAN DIES.

END OF A ROVING LIFE. (SPECIAL TO "THE 'rEESS.") AUCKLAND, November 27. i Mr Joseph Sylvester Warrington Jackson, who died at the Auckland Infirmary, had lived over one hundred years, and seen nearly every phase of colonial life. Mr Jackson had lived through the reigns of live Sovereigns. In his early manhood he rose to be an officer in the British Hoyal Artillery, and had 1 travelled in many parts of the World. ' While still a comparatively yonng man he came to New Zealand, and saw service during the wars with the Maoris. Ho received the New Zealand War Medal, and enjoyed the military pension. Jackson was fond of a roving, free-and-easy l'fe. He had been gum-digging, had worked in the bush, and at mining, and was once a stock drdver. Not long before his death, Jackson said h.e thought he had not a relative left in the world excepting his wife, who was many years his junior. The old man had not been long at the Infirmarv. and was the oldest person in it. When he became a resident there, was another old man in the Home a year or two younger, who wanted to live till he was a hundred, and was proud of the fact that he was the father of ■ the institution. But when he knew that he had unexpectedly been superseded by a man a year or so older than himself, he never recovered from the. sKooJv, and did not live very long afterwards. Now tliat Jackson has gone, the oldest person at the Infirmary is a woman aged 96, and the oldest man is 93.