OTAGO CENTENARIAN CONGRATULATED
LORD BLEDISLOE'S LETTER [THE PRESS Special Service] DUNEDIN, October 17. If any further evidence were required o£ the kindly interest that the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, takes in the people oil the Dominion, it is provided in a letter he has written to Mr J. A. Crawford, a centenarian, of Naseby, Central Otago, an account of whose life was recently published. Lord Bledisloe writes as follows: "I have just read the account which recently appeared in the 'Otago Daily Times' of your long and re- 1 markable career, extending in varied experiences over more than 100 years. Accept my hearty congratulations on your rare achievement in having passed your one (hundred and third year, in possession of many of your faculties, and with the capacity to enjoy a ripe old age. Her Excellency and I send to you and Mrs Crawford our best wishes, and trust that you may long continue to keep we'll and happy-''
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20989, 18 October 1933, Page 8
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