CENTENARIAN DEAD
LINK WITH MINING DAYS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, December 30
Eighteen days after he had celebrated the hundredth anniversary of his birthday, Mr. Thornhill Cooper, a well-known citizen of Christchurch and one of the few surviving New Zealanders with a personal knowledge of the very early mining days on the West Coast, died at his home in Papanui today. Mr. Cooper's sketches of mining towns on the West Coast in 1868 are among the most valuable historical documents dealing with the days of the gold rushes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 5
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88CENTENARIAN DEAD Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 5
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