CENTENARIANS DEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 9

CENTENARIANS DEAD

MR. GEORGE GEE, AUCKLAND

CO.C.) AUCKLAND, This Day

The death occurred yesterday at Auckland of Mr. George Gee, in his hundredth year. Mr. Gee, who celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday last October, enjoyed excellent health up to about a month ago. Except for impairment of his sight and hearing, he was able to keep in touch with everyday affairs.

Born in London, he came to New Zealand at the age of 10 with his parents on the ship Sir George Pollock, which arrived at Lyttelton in 1851. Mr. Gee was in business in Chi'istchurch for some years and later lived at Timaru and Dunedin before settling in Auckland. Later he spent five years at Tauranga. In 1862 he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Wood, who also came to New Zealand on the Sir George Pollock. His wife died i,n 1919. Two sons and three daughters survive, and there are 12 grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren.

MRS. JACOBS, COBDEN

(P.A.)

GREYMOUTH. This Day,

Mrs. Mary Ann Jacobs, who attained her hundredth birthday on February 18 last, died at her residence at Cobden this morning.

A native of the Isle of Wight, Mrs. Jacobs arrived at Nelson with her husband and four children on the Adamant after a voyage of 93 days. The family transhipped to the Wallace and arrived at Greymouth in 1874. They took up land at Omoto, where Mrs. Jacobs resided for 64 years before removing to Cobden. Mr. Jacobs died in 1922.

Of the family of ten, one daughter and three sons survive. There are 29 grandchildren and 10 great-grand-children.