OLD IDENTITIES
UNIQUE FUNCTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
OAMARU, This Day,
Forty pioneers of Oamaru were the guests of the Mayor and Mayoress, Mr. and Mrs. K. Familton s at a gathering yesterday held to organise an Old Identities' Association. The event was unique in the history of Oamaru. if not in New Zealand.
Five were present over 90 years of age, including Mrs. George Jones, widow of the late Hon. George Jones, M.L.C., founder of the "Oamaru Mail," and Mrs. James Irving, who came by aeroplane from Palmerston North to attend the gathering. Others present were Mrs. Jasper Nicholls, who was born in Oamaru 79 years ago, and has lived there ever since; Mr. George Grenfell, aged 80, who has lived in Oamaru for 78 years; Mr. William Milne, aged 90, an Oamaru resident for 57 years; Mr. John Vernor, aged 90, who has lived in Oamaru for 62 years; and Mrs. Hannah Barry, aged 90, a resident of the town for over 60 years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 15
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165OLD IDENTITIES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 15
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