HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY
(0.C.) PALMERSTON N., This Day,
Mr. W. A. Weekes, of Maxwells Line, Awapuni, is celebrating his 100 th birthday today. Except for failing eyesight during the past 15 months, Mr. Weekes has suffered no major bodily ailment. He was born in Devonshire, the son of a farmer, and chose the Navy for a calling, but later signed on the cargo vessel Wild Duck, which landed him in Auckland. From there he went to the Thames goldfield, but did not do well. The kauri gumfields treated him little better, so he proceeded to Wellington. He worked in the Wairarapa flaxmills and then crossed to the South Island, where he worked as a platelayer and bridge builder on the railways. He came to Palmerston North when the city was still a village and worked on road construction prior to acquiring land at Awapuni, where he engaged in farming.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 76, 26 September 1941, Page 6
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148HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 76, 26 September 1941, Page 6
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