A chirpy 100 years today
*Tm not Mr Campbell, I’m Bob,” says Rannerdale Home’s chirpy centenarian.
Bob Campbell will celebrate his hundredth birthday today with friends, relatives, and a number of
guests, including the chairman of the Walmart County Council (Mr D. B. Rich), and Mr M. A. Connelly, M.P m and Mr H. J. Walker, former member of Parliament for Papanui. Mr Campbell was born in the immigration barracks at Addington, a day after his Scots parents arrived in New Zealand. He has lived most of bis life in Christchurch, apart from some time that he and his wife spent in Australia. The site of a house he lived in now forms part of Addington Prison. After Bob Campbell left school he started to learn bootmaking. He lived with the tradesman and was treated “like one of the family.”
He admits to often sneaking out ‘‘on the quiet” while living there. “And if they found out that I had kissed a girl I’d Set a smack in the ear,” e said.
Mr Campbell spent most of his working life with the New Zealand Railways, as a carriage machinist. How long, he is not quite sure, as time is something he does not “give much consideration to.”
As a private in the Canterbury Infantry Regiment, he spent two years in Europe, mostly in France and at Gibraltar, during World War 1.
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