HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY
A WOMAN OF SPIRIT (By Telegraph.)(Speciaf to "Thß Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. Mrs. Frances Mary Speakman, resident at the Auckland Infirmary, celebrated her hundredth birthday on Saturday. Owing.to .a fall some time ago she remained in bed, but it was characteristic of her indomitable spirit and vigour that she insisted on carrying out the old custom of blowing out the candles on her birthday cake. She had no difficulty in extinguishing the whole hundred at one breath.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1931, Page 6
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80HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1931, Page 6
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