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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 99, 21 January 1926, Page 6

Whilst on a motor trip through Central Otago, Air. J. A. Flesher, of Christchurch, met a Crimean veteran, who is now ninety-five years of age (states the "Lvttelton 'Times”). This old man, Ah' James Crawford, resides with his wife in a cottage at Naseby, his wife now being eighty-one. Air. Crawford slated to Air. Flesher that he is now the last of the Crimean pensioners in New Zealand. He has medals for service in the navy in the Baltic, •the Alediterranean, and at the siege of Sebastopol. For the past fifty years he has lived at Naseby Business people seldom handle farthings these davs. The other day a Wanganui storekeeper received four (states the “Herald”). They were handed across the counter in payment for a penny ice-cream. He decided to keep them' to show his cliildrcn, who had never Peen q farthittji,