Mrs M. A. Wells, of Wanganui, reached lier hundredth birthday to-klay (says a Wanganui message). Ihe old lady possesses all her faculties, and is able to walk about. She was born m Swell, in Surrey, and can speak interestingly of incidents in the reign ot King William the Fourth. Sir Charles Fergussoh visited her last week, and expressed surprise at her wonderful memory. At a meeting of the Hawera Football ','hib last evening a match with the Hawera Athletic Football Club, to be blared on' September 26,. was decided in.' The proposal met with the approval of Mr A, Cray, the principal of the Hawera Technical High School, who has undertaken to arrange a curtain-raiser, nrobahly between the Stratford and Hawera Technical High Schools. Proceeds will be in aid of the sports queeh candidate and the Hawera Technical High Schools’ sports fund.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 September 1925, Page 11
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