CENTENARIAN DIES
Celebrated 101st Birthday Recently By Telegraph—Press Association. Hamilton, August 11. A few days after celebrating his 101st birthday Mr. George Enos Holloway has died at Morrinsville. Mr. Holloway understood that he was the oldest living veteran of the Maori wars and the last of the Fortieth Regiment which took part in the. campaign in Taranaki in 1860, and in tlie Waikato in 1863-61.
Born in Devon, Mr. Holloway came to New Zealand at an early age. Twelve days ago, when lie celebrated his birthday, lie appeared in excellent health for a man of his age.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 271, 12 August 1938, Page 10
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