ARRIVED BY JANE GIFFORD
NINETY-FOUR ON TUESDAY. [Special to “Northern Advocate.”] AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr John Muir, of Coronation Road, Mangere, will celebrate the 94th anniversary of his birth on New Year’s Day. He came to the Dominion as an infant with his parents in the ship Jane Gifford. Mr James Robertson, of Mangere, who died not long ago, was a passenger on the ..ame ship. Mr Muir has spent all but a few months of his long life in New Zealand, and has passed the last 20 years at Mangere in retirement. He was for many years a dealer in horses and cattle at Hawera, and later he lived for 26 years at Manaia. He gave up horse riding a few years ago, but still spends much of his time in the garden. Mr Muir is known at Mangex’e and Westfield max’kets as “Uncle John” and, until recently, was a well-known figure at the Ellerslie and Epsom i-acecourses.
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Northern Advocate, 29 December 1934, Page 3
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