MARVELLOUS WOMAN.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 37, 14 May 1934, Page 4

MARVELLOUS WOMAN.

AUCKLAND, May 10. Octogenarians, and even nonagenarians, are not uncommon in Auckland,

but Mrs C. A. Henwood, of Mangerc, who was 95 last week, is out of the ordinary. Bho rises every day at 5 o’clock, makes tea for the men before they begin milking, and then does all the work in a ten-roomed two-storied house. She accepts her son’s help in the flower garden, which is large, but the vegetable garden which supplies all household needs, is entirely her own care. She was digging with a spade when interviewed yesterday. She also refuses help to chop kindling wood for the house. She does not now do any milking, because when she was 87 she fell and broke both her wrists. Mrs Henwood has never worn glasses, and reads the newspapers every day. She is only 4ft Ilin in height, and weighs about 7 stone.