Canterbury’s Oldest Inhabitant Dies
( I '.A. I <’!! Hl.Vl'f ! i( ' ltd |. ’i'li is IV;, y. Mr. Robert (filbert, wlms,- r.innly playl an import, mt part in tin- cariy liisterx of Banks Peninsula, died at (' 1 11 • i>• t efitir-n Unlay. According to the records of Canterbury pilgrims and the Karly Set tiers' Association, lie was thw oldest living native-born inhabitant of (’aiucrlmry. A son of M:. William Hilbert, who arrived nt Aharon in Us:;:, on hoard :i winning vessel, and of To Marino, sister of ilnWaiwera chef. Taka la barn, Air. (filler! was horn in Tikao May in ISIS. In his youth, when In* worked in the bush. Air. i ti11,,-i t's ski'd as an axeman and piisawyoc was e\eept iopal. lie was farmer in the Akaroa district, and carried on ile\ eh>p ll a lit of the peninsula which 1 1 is father and others had begun. _ A mosi active and energetic man. Air. d;ihert was in I'Xe.-lleiit In-alth iililil illiii"--' tile < lid of 11 is long life.
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Northern Advocate, 28 April 1944, Page 2
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