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Mr W. Robertson, who has been appointed Under-Secretary for Lands in succession to Mr J. B. Thomson, who is retiring, joined the Lands and Survey Department as a cadet in the Dunedin office in November, 1892. The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) and party, who had attended the opening of the Science Block at Massey College, stopped their car at Levin last evening, to take tea hero before proceeding to Wellington. Probably the oldest male resident of the Dominion, Mr Gustav Smith, of North-East Valley, Dunedin, celebrated his one hundredth and* fifth birthday recently. Despite the fact that he has exceeded the normal human span by no fewer than 35 years, Mr Smith enjoys remarkable health and retains his faculties to a wonderful degree. His features bear little impression of the ravages of time, and he would easily pass for a man in the early seventies. He is still able to read a newspaper without the aid of glasses*
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 May 1931, Page 4
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