A WONDERFUL WOMAN
(By Telegraph.—Press Assooiatfon.)
# AUCKLAND, This Day,. Octogenarians and even nonagenarians are' not uncommon in Auckland, but Mrs. C. A. Henwood, of Mangeie, who was- 95 last week, is out of the ordinary. She rises every day at 5 o'clock, makes tea if or the men before they begin milking, and then does all the woik in a ton-roomed two-storeyed house. She accepts her son's help in tho Jlower gaidcn, which is large, but tho vegetable garden, which supplies all the household needs, is entirely her own care. She was digging in it i\ith a spade -nhen interviewed yesterday. She also refusos help to chop kindling wood for tho house. She does not now. do any milking because when she was 87 she fell and broke both her wrists.
; Mis. Henwood has never worn glasses, and leads the newspapers every day. She is only 4 feet 11 ( inches in height, and weighs about 7 stone.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 15
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157A WONDERFUL WOMAN Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 15
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