A STOUT-HEARTED VETERAN.
■' Tte , independence ;'df ' the; average fanner was strikingly illustrated.,to. our. Wairarapa correspondent,.in; acase .which camounder his notice tho'other; day in tho southern portion of his_ district. Tlie 1 farmer in question was an _old man. of seventy-years' from tho Danish frontier, and notwithstanding the fact that .-hohad lived half ; his life in New Zealand, tho English language .was'still difDcuJt to him. - in a strong Teutonic acccnt he • bnoflly. recounted his' experiences. When ho landed in the district some thirty-five \*ears ago, he;4now not'a word, of' English, ho and .. Ms good .frau-possessed,,only 7s. and tho clothes -they stood up; in,'.and 'they; wcro in debt-to the: extent of: £3.- In the courso of . .time, tho old-fellow had brought, up a family ?ad.worked: hard. -Now, in the evening' of his life,, he was residing in a small cof tage upon a .small: ncntal from a proporty !? just Kept him ; and his. good wife when therei was no illness.'. Hp',had-boon asked ■why he did not take advantage of tho old age pension,_but ho had said:. No; so long as he could subsist, ho .was not going. to live on the country. Hp did ; not beliove in it, and ho - contended', sturdily that lie would not do it This is! tho,- typo vof /sdttler that does tho county, good. ' ''
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 261, 28 July 1908, Page 3
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217A STOUT-HEARTED VETERAN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 261, 28 July 1908, Page 3
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