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One of the Dominion’s oldest residents. Mrs Jessie Liddell Watt, has died in Napier in her 105th year. She celebrated her 104th birthday on May 15. Since she broke her hip three years ago she had been an inmate of the Napier Hospital. Mrs Watt was born in Glasgow in 1842. Yesterday. Mr E. W. Robinson, of Ocean Beach. Whangarei Heads, celebrated his 82nd birthday, and his 81st year in New Zealand. He came to this country with his parents at the age of one year, arriving from Canada on a sailing vessel. Until his retirement a few years ago. Mr Robinson was engaged in farming. In his youth Mr Robinson walked over seven miles to school each day, and as there were only beaten tracks to follow the going was extremely difficult. All stores had to be packed on the backs of the members of the family the same distance—from McLeod’s Bay to the beach—there being no roads or even horses in the district.

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Northern Advocate, 27 June 1946, Page 4

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Personal Northern Advocate, 27 June 1946, Page 4

Personal Northern Advocate, 27 June 1946, Page 4

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